I always got the impression it was more geared towards pushing brands and celebrities in front of you rather than being an engaging social media platform.
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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That doesn't sound like meta, they're all about love and bettering the life of everyone!
Oh no wait, I think I had my dog in mind. Meta is nothing like that.
Does your dog have a social media platform? I would like to join this site.
No, but it would probably look like that
Pupper!!!
Oh my god your dog is adorable!
He is. I didn't manage to take a video yet, but when he finds a stick or a ball he really finds worthy playing with he jumps and frolics around with it, throws it into the air for himself and just has the best time all by himself. I've never met a person not laughing tears at that.
It would be a sign of health in our societies if people stopped using the services of these leaches.
The app feels very one-dimensional. There’s a reason the algorithm exists despite it being publicly derided: it works.
All users were forced users. Meaning, everyone who had Instagram also had a threads account. No wonder everyone leaves.
I feel like that was by design, make your numbers look better than they actually are. The thing that zuck the cuck seems to always forget is that Facebook grew organically by word of mouth, not forced through tricks and metrics. That's the main advantage of lemmy and kbin right now, their growth is by sheer word of mouth, completely organic.
Is this actually accurate though? From my understanding you had to "activate" threads access, and those who did this are those who have been counted in the numbers.
I wasn't an user, I could be wrong, but I remember reading multiple times that all users of instagram were automatically users of threads.
Not automatically. You had to click 'sign up for threads'. Still, it was very seamless and even let you auto follow those you had on Instagram, so the user count was definitely inflated. It's not surprising the number of active users are way down.
Maybe they're just chilling in Mark's metaverse.
IMO, the fact that there's no desktop version (AFAIK) and they made it so difficult to discover new content, pages/people. etc., & how many of the users are probably just Instagram users who had accounts auto-added & have no interest in Threads, are the main reasons for the decline.
I think they blocked European users from using a vpn to access it. Maybe that was part of the reason. Someone else said that it might be the algorithm, but honestly, mastodon doesn’t have that and it’s a great community.
why would anyone use a vpn to surpass an European law that cares about your privacy?!
@stebo02 @worfamerryman, not only for privacy, its also to bypass country restrictions, eg, try to watch a movie or serie in the German publicTV in their official Homepage, from other country, even of the EC. You can't without VPN.
i wasn't talking about using vpn in general, that's ok, but using it to have Facebook steal your data is pretty wild isn't it