Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half

Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by LexiMax on Friday July 28, 2023 @05:55PM (#36913895)

Mastodon was really never going to be that place where most of the internet moved. It would've been nice in a perfect world, but it's simply not set up as an advertiser-friendly social networking site that would attract celebrities and brands, and quite frankly I think the vast majority of its userbase considers that a feature and not a bug.

Still, I believe that BlueSky and Threads remain a looming existential threat to Twitter. One important role that Twitter filled was being the de-facto centralized RSS feed. It is by far the thing that I see that Twitter is still used for, even by ex-Twitter users and people like me who never used the site in the first place.

To be the centralized RSS feed, you need a web-facing interface, so you can pass links around over the clearnet. Threads doesn't have one. BlueSky isn't even open to the greater public yet. But either one of those could change overnight.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by singingfish on Friday July 28, 2023 @08:26PM (#36915337)

I'm getting regular bluesky invites, and people use them. It looks like the most "correct" implementation to me at this stage, although the having to jump through hoops to share videos is frustrating.

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Re:Mark Zuckerberg: Threads users down by more than a half by LexiMax on Friday July 28, 2023 @11:26PM (#36916558)

That tracks with what I'm seeing - BlueSky is where most of my twitter-addict friends have either already ended up or are angling to get into. A few of them have Mastodon accounts too.

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