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Meta Threads engagement has dropped 50% in a week
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It's Google Plus all over again.
If people wanted the bird app, they would have already got the bird app, if they don't like the bird app, they would have got a Mastodon account.
It feels like the same reason that Reels isn't doing well, people who wanted TikTok would have already got TikTok, you can't force Instagram users to like Twitter/TikTok but on their Insta account instead.
Just to point out many ex-Digg users are 30-40 years old. I would agree a 40yo normie who only use Facebook wouldn't know about Reddit.
I'd say a lot of these 40 yo on Facebook actually got on reddit during the QAnon nonsense.
I'm not American so not sure about qanon.
Wasn't r/the_Donald before Qanon?
There was ridiculous Q shit on reddit before Qanon became popular. In fact, that’s the first place I ever heard of it. I came upon a sub called, I think, cbts_radio (for “calm before the storm”) and was just like, what the fuck is this? It was a sub for off-topic casual discussion split off from the original cbts sub, and it was filled with the most ridiculous anti-Democrat/Hillary Clinton screechy conservative bullshit I’d ever seen. Qanon didn’t enter the public awareness for another couple of years after that.
Seems qanon is from 2017 and the_donald from 2015.