I’m torn on this one. I want users to migrate to FOSS platforms but at the same time Threads is the best near term solution to drain Twitter users. In a perfect world, I would like the skinheads to stay on Twitter, the attention seeking people to go to threads, and the normal folk to hit Lemmy/Kbin.
At least for me, micro blogging serves very different needs than forums. I don’t see them as so interchangeable that Twitter people flock to kbin/Lemmy.
must be sort of a wake up for all of the platform owners to see the user base be so fluid like that.. like any of them could get flushed down a toilet at any moment..
I signed up to it from instagram to track my favorite epidemiologists and h5n1 only to discover it has no hashtag system to look up trending topics and most of my favorite epidemiologists aren't even on it. So it's worthless for even following COVID, avian flu, and probably every other news topic.
Being attached to Instagram is really the only reason it took off imo. Of course all the normal Insta users are going to at least try it out because it’s so “easy” to sign up.
I’d argue that the initial sign up week people should not be classified as “daily active users” Lots of people will check something out when it launches, I’d only start measuring actual usage after a month or two.
Yeah. Really those “DAU” numbers should be rolling average numbers per month, because there’s far too much user variability even week to week for any data to be reliable.
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