A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users

https://lemmy.ml/post/2180302

A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users - Lemmy

Is this a surprise? User retention is hard, and I’d expect this to hit even harder as time goes by. It’ll keep going up until the point where user growth matches attrition and I’d guess in the early days of a social platform, it’s going to take a while for background growth to increase that much and attrition will be pretty high given the lack of attachment.
It’s not a surprise, but it gets upvoted because “threads bad”.

Oh get out of here w/ that. It’s not bad as much as it’s just stupid - it’s literally a top down approach to social media. Fb & instagram have already made it big so of course they can launch & pull whatever bs they want.

It wasn’t organic & they hadn’t built anything w/ true merit & people are still tired of Zuck. He’s marginally better than musk these days at best. And maybe people aren’t as crazy about celebs & influencers wanting to be seen & heard as we all thought - as that’s not social media - that’s a Coca-cola commercial.

You’re proving my point. It’s a shitty platform and nobody likes it, so this was completely expected. Because it’s expected, it’s not notable, but posts about it get upvoted because people like to shit on it.