[bakugo]

No, it's dead. It has completely vanished from public conscience, I literally forgot it existed for weeks until I saw this post. People don't even bother linking to it as an alternate platform on Twitter anymore, even bsky is way more popular in that regard.

People claiming it would be a huge success and would replace Twitter when it launched were already clearly a bit out of touch, anyone claiming it still has a chance to grow now is straight up delusional.

[threeseed]

Since you're claiming to have insight into the actions of the general public I assume you have some numbers to back it up ?

Because Zuckerberg said 2 months ago it had 100m MAU which is very much the opposite of dead.

[bakugo]

If "it has high MAU" is your only metric for whether or not a social platform is doing well, then Facebook is also still extremely successful and not struggling at all. But in reality we all know this isn't true, they likely wouldn't even have made Threads if it was.

[threeseed]

Maybe don't move the goalpost.

Do you have some numbers to back up your claims ?

And Facebook is still extremely successful at least from a revenue perspective.

[Yhippa]

I have no data. All I know is personally, nobody I know uses it, nobody sends me links on it, and when I last visited it was all highly curated corporate or celebrity accounts. No thanks.

[rainonmoon]

So this from the company that grossly inflated its viewership numbers to build false credibility for its video offering? You've gotta be kidding.

[the_mitsuhiko]

I’m not sure if this is true. I use Instagram a lot and the app keeps reminding me that it’s a thing. Whenever I open it I see a lot of content being posted. It does not feel dead.

[bakugo]

What's your definition of "a lot of content"? I just logged into it and literally half of my feed was selfies of provocatively dressed women, and the other half was really generic and unfunny memes that I'd expect to see old people posting on facebook (I literally saw the "what color is this dress" image, I am not joking), and almost none of the text was in english. I didn't see a single post that I could say for sure was posted by a real person that was actually using threads.