I still see links to X quite often. I don’t think I have ever seen a link to Threads.

I've also never seen a link to Facebook or Instagram but I wouldn't deny they're extremely popular. (last time I saw a link to Facebook was probably when Carmack was blogging there)

DAU for Threads is misleading, Meta seems to count impressions in Instagram where Threads sections sometimes show up. I personally know no one who uses Threads.

> I personally know no one who uses Threads

Real ‘I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon’ energy here.

That's why I didn't start off with that statement lest I be accused of anecdata which is fair. But it's true in my case. How many do you know that use Threads, especially on a regular basis?

> I personally know no one who uses Threads.

I don’t know literally anyone using twitter and yet obviously people do.

Perhaps what the individuals we know are doing are in fact reflective of not very much.

Sorry but no. I don't care what inflated numbers Meta brags about after redirecting random people from Instagram and counting that as an "active user", Threads is so utterly irrelevant that I literally forget it exists for months at a time because nobody talks about it.

Even here on HN, searching for links to threads.com in comments from the past year yields a mere 53 results. For comparison, searching for xcancel.com, an unofficial frontend for x.com that allows logged out users to view replies, yields 795 results.

Threads is extremely ‘normie-coded,’ I don’t think there’s much overlap with HN demographics.

Twitter seems to be more popular in reddit too

https://old.reddit.com/domain/threads.com/top/

https://old.reddit.com/domain/x.com/top/

There's not much overlap with any demographics.