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[โ€“] fossphi@lemm.ee 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not so sure. I talked to some people who knew about threads, a couple even had accounts. These are not tech oriented people. Moreover, I quite often see memes/screenshots of bluesky posts right here.

Make of that what you will. I have no numbers or anything, but it seems like they're not as dead as we might think.

[โ€“] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They arent dead, but they are in the millions of users, not hundreds of millions.

That is enough to sustain a social media platform, but none of them fully have the network effect going for them yet.

With federation, hopefully they won't need it. That can be the network effect once interoperability is really here. Then everyone can still communicate, but not be beholden to any one service/owner/etc.