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Meta Threads engagement has dropped 50% in a week
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this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2023
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Same thing happened with Mastodon to an extent. Twitter migrants want a platform that is at least as "good" as Twitter.
Mastodon has at least as many features as Twitter, but almost no important users to follow.
Threads has a lot more important users, but far less features than Twitter.
Though Mastodon's key advantage over Threads, is the fact that people are more willing to "believe" in the Mastodon project. Mastodon had no high-profile controversy yet. It is FOSS, the people are friendly and it is slowly growing organically with a few growth spurts here and there.
Meta Threads has the same image problems as Twitter. Zucc and Musk are probably equally controversial figures. I imagine people mostly joined Threads because of FOMO and group-think. There is no reason for most of them to use it over Twitter.
In the end tho, I don't see Twitter being de-throned by either of these platforms.
Just: Honestly, we figure Twitter will keep staggering along until its servers implode.
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Are the Threads user numbers being quoted still inflated because everyone with an Instagram account received a shadow Threads account?
OH IT WILL BE DETHRONED ALRIGHT, just NOT from mastodon
What do you think could dethrone it?
"Oh you're a villain alright, just not a SUPER one!"
I'm pretty sure the platform that kills Twitter will be Twitter. It's not going to be a question of a superior platform luring people away, Twitter is just going to become unusable because of the management. When that happens, replacements will compete with one another. I don't personally have an opinion on which is going to win the competition, but I think you make good points about important users vs features.