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Meta's 'Threads' wants to colonize the Fediverse (fortune.com)
submitted 1 year ago by ghostBones@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I really hope this is a complete failure, like Meta itself.

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[–] Ragnell@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, but to be fair we don't have a good number of those who opted out because to delete the Threads account you have to delete your Instagram account.

A significant number may simple have noped out after seeing no follow feed.

[–] vaguerant@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Definitely. Meta is studiously only sharing the number of accounts registered. We have no idea how many of those are active. If we go with the old 1-9-90 rule, only about 10 million of those 100 million will become active users. Although, the rule obviously isn't a universal constant. On the fediverse, for example, it's closer to ⅓ of registered users that are active.