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Refutation[0] from head of Instagram > There is no way this is the case as we have many times as many daily users as they have total signups. Maybe this data is web data? [0] https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/DCkAjj1y5qz
MAU/DAU have always somewhat seemed like dishonest metrics anyway, plus things like network effect and news cycles ("Threads has so many users!" yeah because it just came out). What if a company juices the metrics like say, not including messages in your email anymore, so you have to physically go to Facebook? Zuckerberg's products seem a bit... derivative. They're all copied from other products in really dishonest w…
Gotta juice those numbers and make the Street happy by any means necessary. The system is broken, but oh well.
MAU/DAU have always somewhat seemed like dishonest metrics anyway, plus things like network effect and news cycles ("Threads has so many users!" yeah because it just came out). What if a company juices the metrics like say, not including messages in your email anymore, so you have to physically go to Facebook? Zuckerberg's products seem a bit... derivative. They're all copied from other products in really dishonest w…
Being derivative isn’t necessarily a bad business strategy as long as you improve on whatever you’re deriving from.
I think Zuck just wants to own everyone else's stuff
The quality of the default timeline is also extremely poor. It's entirely engagement bait, most of which tends to be rage bait. Like all Meta properties, they've just taken facebook and presented it a different way. Instagram's feeds, when you haven't muted suggested content is the same, but pictures/reels instead of text.
I really wish Meta would stop trying to remake Facebook, but engagement sells ads, and they're in the business of selling ads.
Not really surprising since on X, 99% of answers on finance related posts are crypto scam bots, but still quite a big change.
MAU/DAU have always somewhat seemed like dishonest metrics anyway, plus things like network effect and news cycles ("Threads has so many users!" yeah because it just came out). What if a company juices the metrics like say, not including messages in your email anymore, so you have to physically go to Facebook? Zuckerberg's products seem a bit... derivative. They're all copied from other products in really dishonest w…
Was very successful for Meta, Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc and others. They do not care.
Each of them have made acquisitions to copy their competition.
Would be nice to see some real effort by Threads. I think a lot of organizations (companies, non-profits, local government, etc.) would be happy to have a Twitter alternative that is as drama-free as Instagram.
Have you been on Insta lately?
MAU/DAU have always somewhat seemed like dishonest metrics anyway, plus things like network effect and news cycles ("Threads has so many users!" yeah because it just came out). What if a company juices the metrics like say, not including messages in your email anymore, so you have to physically go to Facebook? Zuckerberg's products seem a bit... derivative. They're all copied from other products in really dishonest w…
At least with Bluesky you can trivially download the entire firehose and determine the number of e.g. users liking at least one post. According to public stats [1] based on this data, ~2.8M unique users liked posts yesterday, which aligns very well with the daily active users shown on the graph. The comparison might be wrong for other reasons, but Bluesky pumping their numbers is probably not one of them. [1] https:/…
./websocat4.x86_64-unknown-linux-musl wss://jetstream.atproto.tools/subscribe\?wantedCollections=app.bsky.feed.post |pv --line-mode --rate > /dev/null
I can prove the posts are DECLINING EVERY DAY, and now so can you.
this number never clocked over 160 posts per second.
its trending DOWN to 88-100 posts per second rather than going up, despite adding "20 million people" and "a million a day."
its not growing. its dying. pfraze and jay gruber are lying. as someone who was already there in the first place, and just got smacked down a month ago over rubbish , with ycombinator comments in my history to prove it , i can tell you that all the artists and things that made bluesky bluesky - including me - are gone smothered suffocated silenced and banned and now all you see are piping hot US political takes all day. im not even in the united states which is why i am livid about the new arrivals and the agenda.
so you have millions of "new accounts" that arent posting anything.
are these just bots to "like" jojo and the krassensteins TDS posting?
there are threads on places i shant mention, describing how new users are scrutinized to see if theyre anywhere politically to the right of Mao and hatebombing / harassing/moderating/banning them immediately. how is this even possible with a million new accounts a day?
Threads seems like it was designed by people who want me to be angry. Bluesky seems like it was designed by people who want me to be happy. I notice I stay on threads longer, often thinking “people can’t possibly believe this nonsense,” and I notice that I’m angry after using it for some time. I stay on Bluesky for much shorter periods, and I often feel peaceful (even bordering on bored) after a session.
Nowdays I'm much more scared than angry about socialist thinking getting us all closer to WW3 though.