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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 88 points 2 years ago

Actually, everything Meta is terrible.

Fuck off Mark.

[-] Boozilla@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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 2 years ago

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 2 years 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 2 years ago

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

[-] bernieecclestoned@sh.itjust.works -2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Jackthelad@lemmy.world 65 points 2 years ago

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

[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 14 points 2 years ago

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 6 points 2 years ago

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

[-] DieguiTux8623@feddit.it 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Bluskale@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] AnokLola@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Luisp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 2 years ago

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

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

It’s a reference to LA Noire

[-] tb_@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] OneWomanCreamTeam@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Press mastodon to doubt

[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 20 points 2 years ago
[-] warmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Always has been.

[-] kaitco@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

“Great” in the way that Metaverse was great, or this the real sort of great, as in “free beer” great?

[-] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 years ago

99.5 million of whom are bots

[-] ezchili@iusearchlinux.fyi 6 points 2 years ago

Not everything has to have a billion user

Let's see if they can accept it

[-] LEDZeppelin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Sure Jan. Now go fuck yourself.

[-] Xero@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] registrert@lemmy.sambands.net 3 points 2 years ago

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

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