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Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by the_snooze »

srvmshr wrote: post #141

I tried using Threads religiously for few days alongside Twitter: * The feed is chaotic & no guarantees people (and by extension, Topics) whom you followed will show up primarily. Seeing a machine learning thread between a Barbie post & scantily clad influencer is bizarre. * The feed is jumpy with tiny accidental refreshes. You could be reading the thread and do a deep dive, and come out to find the timeline slightly…

>The feed is chaotic & no guarantees people (and by extension, Topics) whom you followed will show up primarily. Seeing a machine learning thread between a Barbie post & scantily clad influencer is bizarre.

I follow some local weather sources. The algorithm decided that I'm really big into weather and started feeding me weather sources in other cities. Thanks, Threads. Good job trying to guess what I want instead of just listening to what I've clearly opted into.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by nomel »

travisjungroth wrote: post #83
nomel wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Musk has already train wrecked 10s of billions of dollars. Why would a user of the site/app care about this? How is it impacting their experience?

Why are you asking that like someone suggested it? This was a reply to a specific claim.

I read the replies oas being in the context of the first comment they were under. It wasn't clear to me that the context changed.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by bhauer »

adam_arthur wrote: post #107

Threads launched without the ability to only see the people you follow. To me that marked it as doomed from the start. Most people use Twitter to follow specific niches or topic areas, not as a general conversational platform. If I follow even one account that's posting low quality content at any sort of frequency, it seriously degrades the experience. It's really a headscratcher how they launched without that. I gue…

This is probably its most important failure.

Ironically, the people who refuse to use the "Following" tab on Twitter are, I expect, the same people who are most dissatisfied with Twitter. If you use the Following tab, Twitter remains pretty damn great. It's when you allow an algorithm to feed you stuff that the experience can become something between unsatisfactory and toxic.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by [deleted] »

coldcode wrote: post #128
partiallypro wrote: post #112

The app is missing so many core components, no DMs, no web interface, no trends, it's hard to find people. This absolutely has a market; but honestly given how half-baked it is, they probably should have waited for another Musk crucial mistake, which is inevitable.

It's missing everything necessary to make it for you and your interests; instead, you get what Zuck wants you to see. No hashtags (needed to build an audience if you want to post about things or find interesting people to follow), and it's not on the web (given how completely shitty the Instagram web interface is, they could care less about the web). I think they released it to capitalize on Elon's stupidity but with…

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Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by dredmorbius »

operatingthetan wrote: post #118
dredmorbius wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We have seen critical appraisals of past social media launches, e.g., "Google+ Study Reveals Minimal Social Activity, Weak User Engagement" (2012) https://www.fastcompany.com/1837332/exclusive-new-google-stu... > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3977050 > The study in question is, to my surprise, still available directly online: https://blog.rjmetrics.com/2012/05/15/new-google-plus-data-s... > There are another 1…

>We have seen critical appraisals of past social media launches, e.g., "Google+ Study Reveals Minimal Social Activity, Weak User Engagement" (2012) https://www.fastcompany.com/1837332/exclusive-new-google-stu... > This was nearly a year after G+ launched. The article in question here is about three weeks after the launch of threads. That doesn't seem like a fair comparison to me...

I picked a particular item with significant HN discussion. The fact that it was data-backed (a 40k profile analysis) also means that it lags actual activity. As with all complex evolving situations, hard empirical data are not realtime.

The "ghost town" label had been stuck on G+ within the first few weeks, yes.

HN discussion from September 2011 (G+ launched in July):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3019699>

Numerous HN takes in comments from June -- September 2011: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1316822400&dateRange=custom&...>

And, FWIW, at the time I was contesting the characterisation of G+. I distinctly recall the discussions and press coverage, however.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by ArchOversight »

hn1986 wrote: post #137
andrewstuart wrote: post #125

I can’t see how threads can be “launched” without a desktop client. That’s not even an MVP, it’s non existent. Some of these supposed genius tech leaders are really showing themselves to have very questionable decision making capability. It was also extremely off putting that it was so tightly linked to instagram. They also made a mistake by not leveraging peoples desire to get their own Twitter handle on threads. Fa…

Adam Mosseri mentioned their intentions to get an MVP going. It actually runs smoothly and iterating quickly. Web version probably coming in few weeks. It's already surpassed Mastodon and Bluesky easily. and there's no conspiracy theorists on there.. like qanon or white nationalists. https://www.axios.com/2022/10/30/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweet...

There's plenty of alt-right and right wing accounts that are attacking LGBTQIA+ folks and making it unsafe on threads.

Due to the nature of things being linked to Instagram it is making it easier for people to hate on transgender folks and I've seen it first hand multiple times. Reporting also leads to no action on certain "large" accounts.

Saying there no white nationalists on Threads is false.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/09/meta-thre...

For those of us in the LGBTQIA+ community Threads is simply not safe.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by nemo8551 »

hooverd wrote: post #46
nerdawson wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It’s becoming increasingly obvious that Twitter isn’t going to be that place with each new chaos monkey attack from Musk, but what the successor place is going to be remains to be seen. First, Mastodon was going to be the new place. It wasn't. Then Threads came along and again everyone said it would be the death knell for Twitter. It wasn't. My takeaway would be quite the opposite. While everything that comes along…

Mastodon isn't going to be /the/ new place. Hopefully it will become part of many new places.

For me mastodon is where I get my cybersecurity and infosec chat from now. HN is my generic techy stuff Reddit replacement, insta for mountain biking and twitter is for lower league Scottish football- it’s very well setup on there.

I’m not sure where threads sat for me, it was all the same folk who I follow on instagram but only posting text, now they post pics on thread and their reels on insta.

I’m not fully up on all the fedoverse stuff but I think that’s just due to a lack of effort so far.

Re: Threads users down by more than a half

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Post by operatingthetan »

engineeringwoke wrote: post #124
operatingthetan wrote: post #9

This is being reported in a strange way. We don't typically write about startups gaining initial signups and then compare them to the active users as if they lost something by not getting 100% of them to engage. Do we even have numbers for what percent of twitter users actively engage versus total user base? I don't think they are doing very bad considering it's mobile only right now.

For how counter-cultural HN has always prided itself in being, I find it a bit hard to believe just how much the media has shaped the story here. There's a lot of reason to be skeptical... it's not that I like Musk but the media doesn't like him and that's no secret. I find it to be quite the opposite of what you're saying, that their press team has done a good job of shaping the story positively for Meta. The puff p…

>For how counter-cultural HN has always prided itself in being

Really? A bunch of engineering types who work for big corporations and who also dream and or do start their own hopefully big corporations prides themselves as being "counter-cultural?" That seems like a tough generalization to support.

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