Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows
by distances on Monday January 19, 2026 @05:25PM
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> Remember the hype around location and Foursquare?
There are dozens of us still doing regular check-ins with Swarm, the check-in app that Foursquare rebranded years ago. Maybe hundreds even! It's a good time to join, mayorships are easier to get than ever and there are no busybodies left pushing pointless app updates!
Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows
by dylan604 on Monday January 19, 2026 @05:21PM
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> Anyway, it is important to remember that if you're actively on HN, you're not a normie and you probably have a very skewed view of what normies do and use.
And what if you're on HN and don't use what other are using there? I don't use AI. I don't use social media. I don't use JS frameworks. I don't use Go or Rust. I bang out HTML/JS/CSS by hand in an editor that is not VSCode when I write UIs. I also don't use Docker. Am I even allowed here?!
Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows
by deaux on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @06:49AM
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Yes, you are in fact absurdly overrepresented on here, not just compared to general populace but even in tech -comparison would e.g. be techy subreddits. Ironically proving GP's point pefectly.
Re:Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows
by Macha on Monday January 19, 2026 @08:51PM
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Never mind foursquare, clubhouse had it beat even more as “product that absolutely captured HN power users (including VCs) and approximately no one else”.
For a month or two at least, then even those groups got bored
Your comment remind me of the ~15 year old hype around Q&A sites. You have VCs say things like "everyone I know uses Quora" and that helped hype it up. But for anyone a little removed, Quora was just Yahoo Answers 2.0. And still is. This was a couple of years after Stackoverflow came out.
Remember the hype around location and Foursquare?
Anyway, it is important to remember that if you're actively on HN, you're not a normie and you probably have a very skewed view of what normies do and use.
Another example of what you're talking about (with essentialy isolated communities) was Orkut, which was hugely popular in Brazil and a couple of other places.