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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 248 points 1 year ago

I love how everyone still calls them Facebook. It's the simple things.

[-] weedwhacking@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

Nothing makes me happier than deadnaming a corporation

[-] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 year ago

🍗 (The Bird Formerly Known As Twitter)

[-] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago

I dont care how long it has been or how persistent you are. It's fucking Comcast Xfinity sounds like the subtitle to a terrible Sci-fi movie from the 80s

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[-] gotnuffin@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

This highlights how deep the BS surrounding Musk has burrowed into the media scape. They invariably refer to his companies as "Elon Musks Tesla" or "Elon Musks Twitter" and so on. Where other billionaire's (for the most part) avoid the limelight and their companies stand seperate to their idiotic personal choices.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

I am Elon Musk's throbbing need for attention.

[-] Baratas@aussie.zone 31 points 1 year ago

His name is X Æ A-12 Paulsen

[-] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

“Fucker’s settin’ up franchises”

[-] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

I say “Elon Musk’s Twitter” like would I say “Joel Schumacher’s Batman” — to identify it as the worst version of the thing.

[-] gotnuffin@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Here's his prequels

Elon Musks failed Solar City

Elon Musks failed Boring Company

Elon Musks failed Hyperloop

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately Boring and the hyperloop were wins for him. The goal was to get cities to continue using cars.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

Boring and Hyperloop were successful, they were meant to divert local governments from pursuing viable public transportation projects.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Just a few more failures away from qualifying to be president of the USA.

[-] eurekaphoenix@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Lol the tweet I found this article from referred to it as Meta. nah.

[-] gotnuffin@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

I like how you still call it a tweet. I hope tweet, tweeting and twitter remain the lexicon for X forever.

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Tweet and Retweet are now Post and Repost 😭

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It's just mindboggling. I never even used Twitter and I'm annoyed about it.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

More like eXcrete, and eXhibit.

[-] aeternum@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I X'ed about it last night.

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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah but you posted it as Facebook. You're doing good.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

the local telephone service here has seen several owners and even more name changes in the last couple decades. i still call it by the company name it had in the 90s.

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[-] Onfire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Just like X will never replace Twitter. That was a weird rebranding tbh. Meta at least makes some sense.

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 101 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Mr Zuckerberg - who made the comments in a call to employees, heard by the Reuters news agency - described the situation as "normal" and said he anticipated retention to improve as new features were added to the app.

The company's chief product officer, Chris Cox, told staff it was now focused on adding more "retention-driving hooks" to draw people back to the platform.

Mr Zuckerberg also updated employees on the company's enormous bet on a yet-to-be-created virtual reality world, called the Metaverse.

That prediction may intensify concerns that Meta has dedicated too much time and money to the Metaverse - its Reality Labs division, which produces VR headsets and other products, has racked up multi-billion dollar losses.

Mr Zuckerberg also addressed one other headline-making issue - his proposed cage fight with fellow tech titan Elon Musk.


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[-] spacedancer@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago

Oh cool we have a TLDR bot on lemmy too! Good bot.

[-] redhydride@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago
[-] danielton@lemmy.world 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The main issue is that they assumed the rate limit was going to be the dumbest thing Elon was going to do, and they released Threads long before it was actually ready.

[-] DrQuint@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I read an article from someone explaining the actual user experience in Threads and it's abysmal. You try to curate your feed and instead of getting what you expect, you get content from the likes of people your followers followed followed and are left wondering who the hell everyone is. It's far from the type of setup you get on Instagram.

With that said, Threads had lost half its users ages ago. This headline is sensational, and the platform could easily recover. I don't want to give it much weight.

[-] danielton@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

I've mentioned this elsewhere on Lemmy, but I follow a ton of artists on the former birdsite, and almost all of them ended up flocking to Threads and Bluesky. I created a Threads account to see what all the hype was about, and it is a very half-baked experience. Ignoring all the privacy concerns, the whole thing is very unfinished. Like you said, the feed is full of people I don't even know or follow and I have to chase down my friends to see their posts. The lack of hashtags is a problem too, and since it's not available in the EU, that rules out one of my best friends as well as many of her other friends.

I don't know if it will recover or not, but there's the old saying, "You only get one chance to make a first impression."

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[-] srwax@feddit.ch 61 points 1 year ago

Isn't half still like 50 million users? It's not nothing

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't get these articles. Most users don't stick around on a platform, but if enough do and form a critical mass, it'll succeed.

[-] ronalicious@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Kinda. Lemmy doesn't have anywhere near 50 million users, but the thousands we do have is enough to keep the community churning away.

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[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Engagement is down to 6 minutes per user per day down from 21 minutes at launch.

For perspective Twitter is at 34.8 minutes per user per day.

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[-] forksandspoons@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't be surprised if users of most new apps with a lot of hype follow this trend. Everyone jumps in at first, as hype dies a lot of users stop visiting, and after that is when # of daily users stabilizes and begins the organic growth. We are still in the hype dying phase, transitioning to normal growth.

For that reason, I dont put much weight in headlines like this. It will take several more months or a year to really make a conclusion on whether the app is a success or failure.

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[-] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

I’m not a fan of Meta, but this is sort of expected behavior for any company. You get a swell of account signups and then people go dormant.

This is just bad tech reporting; the tech press can only write 3 stories:

  1. This company is a success
  2. This company is a failure
  3. Look how much funding this company got

Often you get all three about the same company

[-] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

It is quite normal for any business to lose customers after everyone try’s it out. This is being framed negatively, but having 50m users after only a few weeks is amazing. And I say this as someone that refuses to use FB.

[-] unskilledlabor@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Lack of tags or a working search feature broke it for me, I use twitter for news not to see quips from influencers I've never heard of. I might check it out again when it's something other than marginally famous internet celebrities screaming into an empty void.

[-] ayyndrew@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Threads never had enough substance for me to keep using it, half of Threads was just people subtly begging for followers, and the other half was corporate accounts making the same #relatable content that the did on ~~Twitter~~ X

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[-] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago

A different half than the half lost weeks ago?

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Another half.

Threads use is down to about 6 minutes a day — plummeting from 21 minutes when it first launched. (Per user/per day)

Edit: For perspective, Twitter is at 34 mins, Facebook at 30 mins.

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[-] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Are the other half government bots and fbi agents?

[-] Nacktmull@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago
[-] SoyTDI@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think Facebook and Instagram users had no need to use Twitter anyway, so its alternative doesn't fill any need.

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[-] LoraxWithoutThorax@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Well I was using it but I got locked out due to living in Germany :/

[-] eee@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

I got locked out due to living in Germany :/

Germany has good data protections, so blocking German users says a lot about what they do.

[-] ScurBiceps@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Would have lost more if it wasn't tied to Instagram.

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