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While Threads-related headlines have focused on its big traffic drops, Meta's CEO says its Twitter alternative is a 'compelling long-term opportunity.'

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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Actually, everything Meta is terrible.

Fuck off Mark.

[–] Boozilla@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly. Zuckerberg is a POS. Folks are only talking about this because X/Twitter is such a dumpster fire, not because Threads is good.

[–] jameseb@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's sad is that people aren't talking about Mastodon nearly as much as they are talking about Threads and X. It just doesn't seem to get much publicity outside of the fediverse.

[–] mPony@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

well, why would people who use Fediverse options talk about using those options on non-Fediverse platforms? Other than the occasional "hey I use Mastodon and it's great." Not the kind of thing you'd talk about all the time.

[–] jameseb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I can understand why people wouldn't specifically talk about the fediverse on other sites. It just seems like there is a lot of coverage of X and Meta in the news, but there doesn't seem to have been even a passing mention of fediverse sites in most of what I've seen. I guess the more established social media sites are still a lot more significant than fediverse alternatives though.

[–] MxM111@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

There is one undeniable non-terribleness in Threads - it is not Xitter.

Yep, apart from Oculus. Makes sim racing 🤌for the money, I haven't looked at FB for a decade. Awful.

[–] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Strong "my mum says I'm handsome" vibes.

[–] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Southern Italy there's a saying that goes like "every cockroach is beautiful to its mother" which perfectly summarizes the idea.

[–] AnokLola@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In Egypt it's"Every monkey is a gazelle to its own mother"

[–] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

We're neighbours after all... TIL something new, thanks!

[–] Bluskale@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, what’s the connection between monkeys and gazelles that makes this make sense?

[–] AnokLola@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Gazelles are more aesthetically pleasing than monkeys. That's it.

[–] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 year ago

A remainder everyone with a Instagram account that clicked on the @ logo counts as an active user

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tb_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s a reference to LA Noire

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm well aware, but in this context it gets a bit of double meaning

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean. Until now I thought that Threads was a shitty copy of a shittier dying social, but now that his actual owner said otherwise i have to belive him, right?

[–] RememberTheApollo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Always has been.

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

99.5 million of whom are bots

[–] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 1 year ago

Not everything has to have a billion user

Let's see if they can accept it

[–] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Sure Jan. Now go fuck yourself.

[–] Xero@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it weird that I think of an ouroboros every time I see the Threads logo?

[–] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 3 points 1 year ago

We all know them numbers are inflated, whats the number of daily active users not visiting Threads via FB activity?