While Threads-related headlines have focused on its big traffic drops, Meta’s CEO says its Twitter alternative is a ‘compelling long-term opportunity.’

    • Boozilla
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      158 months ago

      Exactly. Zuckerberg is a POS. Folks are only talking about this because X/Twitter is such a dumpster fire, not because Threads is good.

      • @jameseb@lemm.ee
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        78 months ago

        What’s sad is that people aren’t talking about Mastodon nearly as much as they are talking about Threads and X. It just doesn’t seem to get much publicity outside of the fediverse.

        • mPony
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          well, why would people who use Fediverse options talk about using those options on non-Fediverse platforms? Other than the occasional “hey I use Mastodon and it’s great.” Not the kind of thing you’d talk about all the time.

          • @jameseb@lemm.ee
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            28 months ago

            I can understand why people wouldn’t specifically talk about the fediverse on other sites. It just seems like there is a lot of coverage of X and Meta in the news, but there doesn’t seem to have been even a passing mention of fediverse sites in most of what I’ve seen. I guess the more established social media sites are still a lot more significant than fediverse alternatives though.

    • MxM111
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      58 months ago

      There is one undeniable non-terribleness in Threads - it is not Xitter.

    • Dieguito 🦝
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      148 months ago

      In Southern Italy there’s a saying that goes like “every cockroach is beautiful to its mother” which perfectly summarizes the idea.

        • Bluskale
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          Wait, what’s the connection between monkeys and gazelles that makes this make sense?

  • some pirate
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    418 months ago

    A remainder everyone with a Instagram account that clicked on the @ logo counts as an active user

  • ekZepp
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    I mean. Until now I thought that Threads was a shitty copy of a shittier dying social, but now that his actual owner said otherwise i have to belive him, right?

  • @kaitco@lemmy.world
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    168 months ago

    “Great” in the way that Metaverse was great, or this the real sort of great, as in “free beer” great?

  • Xerø
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    48 months ago

    Is it weird that I think of an ouroboros every time I see the Threads logo?

  • Stantana
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    48 months ago

    We all know them numbers are inflated, whats the number of daily active users not visiting Threads via FB activity?