Meta’s new text-based social app Threads has quickly gained 100 million users since launching last week, which appears to be negatively impacting traffic on Twitter. According to web analytics, Twitter traffic declined 5-11% over the first two days Threads was available compared to the previous week. Threads was able to grow rapidly by allowing users to sign up with their existing Instagram accounts and bring over some of their followers. However, Threads has not yet launched in Europe due to regulatory issues. The fast growth of Threads may solidify its position as a real competitor to Twitter, which has over 238 million daily active users.
This is a moment when I’d love to use the “you love to see it” meme comment, but it’s more like… “People are fleeing the burning building, and running across the street to an identical building that is infested with rats and cockroaches!”
“Out of the frying pan, into the fire”
Still better than Nazis.
Meta has contributed to genocide, which is worse than I can (currently) say about musk
It’s amazing how people forget these things.
ex: https://lemmy.ml/comment/1431805
LibsofTiktok is approved there, so I’m not so sure. Not overwhelmingly Nazi, but Nazis are welcome as long as they don’t say slurs kind of thing that centrists like.
They may not say the slur, but they encode it.
Threads has those too.
Yeah, about that …
While ranking the misdeeds of billionaires is a tricky business, given the choice I’d say Zuck is slightly better than Musk at the moment. :)
No need to limit yourself to those two awful options when good alternatives exist which aren’t run by either of them.
Hard disagree there. Facebook contributed to literal genocide. Elon is just an asshole.
Yeah well. Children are dying every day in cobalt mines because we need minerals for EV batteries
Yes, but unlike Elon’s claim, he did not actually invent the electric car. He wasn’t even the founder of Tesla. It was going to happen with or without him.
I could not disagree more. Facebook has been shown to be the most powerful cause for the skyrocketing increase in teenage suicides. And Zuck has done nothing. Facebook was also knowingly allowing Cambridge Analytica to scrape user data and target specific voters that could be swayed and was a primary reason Trump won the electoral college but lost the general vote. And Zuck has done nothing.
But yeah, Elon has been a jerk to some people and says stupid shit.
The guy that sold Bannon the user data he wanted under the table?
Could I play it safe and fire them both into the sun?
Probably better to use “out of the frying pan and into the fire”
Maybe an optimistic take: people moving = people realising they can move. Eventually some of them may also realise they can move to a platform that’s not controlled by a shitty corpo.
And can instead move to a platform that is controlled by a rando instance owner with their own set of quirks and foibles. And can choose amongst thousands of such instances, each controlled by a different rando with a different set of quirks and foibles. Out of the frying pan and into the fire indeed.
It’s more like realizing that you’re surrounded by fire, so you might as well pick a patch with a nice view.
Kinda glossing over that point.
That’s a good point. Plus they won’t be as embedded in the new place as they won’t have 10+ years of history on it. So moving becomes easier generally