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Re:Board Changes at Signal by bilal4hmed on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:36PM (#36348558)
those are search trends and not usage trends.
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Re:Board Changes at Signal by signaluser on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:38PM (#36348586)
You are right, i thought for a moment I was in usagetrends.google.com
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Re:Board Changes at Signal by Lornedon on Thursday June 15, 2023 @07:51PM (#36348768)
Why do you respond like that to valid criticism?
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Re:Board Changes at Signal by signaluser on Thursday June 15, 2023 @08:03PM (#36348898)
Google trends is a good proxy for usage. It's not the whole picture but a good start.

No need to point the obvious

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Re:Board Changes at Signal by kstrauser on Thursday June 15, 2023 @08:10PM (#36348983)
I don't think it is. Here's the trend for Facebook: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

Meanwhile, at least some sources claim their numbers are still slowly climbing: https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly...

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Re:Board Changes at Signal by signaluser on Thursday June 15, 2023 @08:17PM (#36349064)
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

Telegram on the other hand keeps growing

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