All users were forced users. Meaning, everyone who had Instagram also had a threads account. No wonder everyone leaves.
I feel like that was by design, make your numbers look better than they actually are. The thing that zuck the cuck seems to always forget is that Facebook grew organically by word of mouth, not forced through tricks and metrics. That’s the main advantage of lemmy and kbin right now, their growth is by sheer word of mouth, completely organic.
Is this actually accurate though? From my understanding you had to “activate” threads access, and those who did this are those who have been counted in the numbers.
I wasn’t an user, I could be wrong, but I remember reading multiple times that all users of instagram were automatically users of threads.
I’m pretty sure Lemmy has also gone down a lot recently based on the number of upvotes things are getting
Competing with the summer weather?
Also some who vowed to leave reddit undoubtedly recanted
While the apps we have now are really great, I think that number will go back up a bit once boost and sync for Lemmy are released.
I find myself missing so many features I would consider super basic from Boost. Things that would make my Lemmy experience so much better. Even if the apps we have now do those things, they feel clunky and not as good.
Even features aside, the UI makes a huge difference. There are a few Reddit apps I personally couldn’t get into, because of font sizes, spacing, contrast, etc. I’m feeling the same way with Lemmy. I’m tolerating the app I currently use, only because I know Boost is on the way.
Yeah, same here with Infinity
It was my app of choice and I got so use to it, whenever I go back to it every once and a while, I just remember everything I miss since switching to jerboa
Biggest one is definitely the smoothness, idk y but jerboa has a subtly noticable stutter every time I swipe around the feeds, whereas Infinity is completely smooth, running at 90hz flawlessly
And there’s alot of other small QoL and rough-around-the-edges things, too
The minute that Infinity for Lemmy comes out, if at all, is the minute that I return to my home app
Honestly I’m liking Liftoff more than I liked Infinity. Maybe you could try that.
If you haven’t tried it (or have but not recently), Thunder is getting better by leaps and bounds week over week - highly recommend checking it out! I’m still really excited for Boost but I think as Thunder continues to mature it will likely be my daily driver. Great that it’s open source, too!
I use thunder and for the most part, it’s great. I would love to be able to delete comments and copy text from other comments without needing to open a reply window, though. I think this functionality would fit perfectly as a long-press menu.
Also, sometimes on posts with lots of comments, not all of the comments will load, and there is no easy way to force the app to refresh.
Ah, the humans.
On one hand they’re all for peace and unity but on the other hand they’re still using platforms owned by a man who had a hand in orchestrating military killings, swinging the US elections, facilitating Brexit etc and a man who, amongst other things, has been photographed partying with Maxwell, Murdoch, Trump and all the other evil fucks.
IMO, the fact that there’s no desktop version (AFAIK) and they made it so difficult to discover new content, pages/people. etc., & how many of the users are probably just Instagram users who had accounts auto-added & have no interest in Threads, are the main reasons for the decline.
Threads users down by more than half … so far