Bozicus

That's a good point. There's a big scoop of entitlement there. Douchebags all the way down.

Initially, I expect you're right, but advertisers also monitor whether users see ads, click on them, and make purchases once they click. Advertisers might not drop it as fast as users, but they will eventually go where the users go.

I think this is where the big numbers came from, yeah. That, and cleverly pushing up the launch date to practically the same day Elon limited access to Twitter, so everyone was looking for doomscroll methadone.

This is a good point. It makes me wonder if maybe "engagement" isn't going to be a metric for whether Threads succeeds or fails. (Other things I have read suggests that it's hot garbage in ways other than lack of dialogue, so I still think people are dropping it, but they might be able to fix those things).

We were younger. There's no shame in being young, and liking things then that seem stupid now.

And, unless your Playstation is broken, less fun.

...wait, scratch, that, even if your Playstation is broken, he's less fun.

If it makes you feel better, I probably understand Lemmy less well than you, so if you're a misfit, so am I, lol. I see my role here as "someone to put words in the databases other people build."

Yes, we absolutely do.

And you could add that you probably wouldn't learn as much about them by looking at their phone for a few minutes than Threads transmits to Meta every second of every day.

I'm pretty sure the platform that kills Twitter will be Twitter. It's not going to be a question of a superior platform luring people away, Twitter is just going to become unusable because of the management. When that happens, replacements will compete with one another. I don't personally have an opinion on which is going to win the competition, but I think you make good points about important users vs features.

... another terrific username, notelonmusk, although I am slightly concerned that you might be lying.

It would be for me, too, if Zuckerberg weren't a no-go all by himself.