Two separate data analysis firms say the Twitter killer from Instagram has unraveled even as Meta has rushed to add highly requested features.
  • unix84@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    22·
    11 months ago

    It’s a worse Mastodon, run by a company that celebrated election misinformation, leading to the storming of the Capitol, and who later helped police arrest a woman for abortion by turning over private messages she sent to another party. I hope it fails.

  • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zone
    20·
    11 months ago

    That’s good news. First it was 50% and now 80%. How bout meta loses 100% of its users.

  • sculd@beehaw.orgEnglish
    19·
    11 months ago

    A lot of people tried it out the first few days. Didn’t found the function they need and left.

    Probably a lot will go back if its fully functional. Honestly cannot believe a Twitter alternative did not launch with chronological feed…

  • crow@beehaw.orgEnglish
    15·
    11 months ago

    Since it already worked with instagram, this was people signing in with their instagram account, checking the app once or twice, and then going back to instagram. The starting numbers where incredibly manipulated because of this single account system between threads and instagram.

    • i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      I saw a lot of people excited to try it. Losing 80% of its peak users at this point doesn’t seem like a failure to me. Anybody who was curious was counted as a user. I’m sure fediverse sites have had similar, smaller influxes of new users that create an account to check it out and then don’t come back. It takes some determination to move to another social networking ecosystem.

  • uplusion23@lemm.ee
    12·
    11 months ago

    Honestly not that big of a deal. When something is hyped up users who either didn’t or barely used Twitter (X) probably joined in. It boosted their initial numbers but again they fell off. They’ll grow as unique content grows. That happens with everything, as will the case be with Lemmy. Growth isn’t linear.

    • whelmer@beehaw.org
      2·
      11 months ago

      I suppose it isn’t linear but I suspect going from massive insane explosion in numbers to an 80% loss in a matter of weeks is pretty unusual. I think that growth was largely driven not by hype but by the automatic linking with other Zuckernedia properties.

  • CreativeTensors@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    11 months ago

    I mean if you pay attention most social media inundated with influencers and companies is basically:

    “Buy this, no buy this, buy this instead, spend your money here!” It even leeches into everyday conversations outside of social media.

    Pay attention to how often people talk about buying things and newly released products. Hell, I’ve caught myself contributing to it. It’s kind of gross when you realize how steeped in consumerism nearly everything has become.

  • N-E-N@lemmy.ca
    6·
    11 months ago

    Not sure why anyone wanted a second twitter that’s still made by a big-tech

  • sunflower_scribe@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    I think there will be more activity once they add more features. It’s very bare-bones right now. I honestly like the app, though, all things considered. I hate Facebook/Meta, but it’s been a nice app to just scroll through, and there’s been enough content to use it as a time killer. They desperately need a proper search feature and a trending page, though, especially if they ever hope to fully replace Twitter. Overall, I like it more than both Mastodon and Bluesky, because discoverability is so awful on Mastodon and Bluesky doesn’t have enough users and content because they haven’t gone public yet. And I very much like the idea and structure of Mastodon much more (with it being open source and federated), but the user experience has been so bad for me, with discoverability being the worst aspect of it.

    • NightAuthor@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      11 months ago

      I think the main method of discovery is through your network, and through your local instance. Federated timeline tends to be chaotic, but I definitely like reading my local timeline on my regional masto instance. But I believe that was the intention on the design, no ‘trending’, no algorithm, just the people you follow.

      • sunflower_scribe@beehaw.orgEnglish
        3·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, I unironically like trending sections and algorithms, at least to some degree lol I understand the downsides of them, but I enjoy things being shown to me that I’ll usually enjoy seeing. The YouTube algorithm for example, despite how finicky it can be to work with as a creator, is very good as a user, in my opinion.

  • fulminaire@lemm.ee
    5·
    11 months ago

    Because it’s so boring. It doesn’t have a “trending” tab and every post is an ad.

  • jcrabapple@dmv.pub
    4·
    11 months ago

    This is what happens when you launch with no content discovery features, so you have to whore yourself out and follow anyone and everyone if you want to get any attention. “Content creators” and clout chasers are the primary customer of this service, so without that I don’t know why they’d want to use it.

    • alecrazec@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      “Minimum Viable Product” has been a curse on the industry for so long. This is the clearest example of its failure

      • jcrabapple@dmv.pub
        3·
        11 months ago

        No hashtags, no full text search. Just an algorithmic feed and a following feed, and you can only search users.

        • Nyla Smokeyface@beehaw.org
          1·
          11 months ago

          That’s…really bad 😭 Even Mastodon allows you to search by hashtags (I know it supports full-text search but most instances turn that off because it’s pricey)

    • Quexotic@beehaw.org
      1·
      11 months ago

      Could be the trough of dissolutionment or the trough of oblivion from which there is no return. Probably too early to tell.