You’re a little behind the times, mate.
replyThreads has more daily active users than X and is growing quickly vs. the latter’s cratering usage rates. Demographics trend younger, too.
DAU for Threads is misleading, Meta seems to count impressions in Instagram where Threads sections sometimes show up. I personally know no one who uses Threads.
reply> I personally know no one who uses Threads
replyReal ‘I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon’ energy here.
That's why I didn't start off with that statement lest I be accused of anecdata which is fair. But it's true in my case. How many do you know that use Threads, especially on a regular basis?
reply> I personally know no one who uses Threads.
replyI don’t know literally anyone using twitter and yet obviously people do.
Perhaps what the individuals we know are doing are in fact reflective of not very much.
I still see links to X quite often. I don’t think I have ever seen a link to Threads.
replySorry but no. I don't care what inflated numbers Meta brags about after redirecting random people from Instagram and counting that as an "active user", Threads is so utterly irrelevant that I literally forget it exists for months at a time because nobody talks about it.
replyEven here on HN, searching for links to threads.com in comments from the past year yields a mere 53 results. For comparison, searching for xcancel.com, an unofficial frontend for x.com that allows logged out users to view replies, yields 795 results.
Threads is extremely ‘normie-coded,’ I don’t think there’s much overlap with HN demographics.
replyTwitter seems to be more popular in reddit too
replyThere's not much overlap with any demographics.
replyWow I never thought the org I’ve donated to all these years to fight for digital rights would find the need to use the phrase “queer folks”. What a toxic mess.
replyPlease stick to your charter my friends.
I don’t even see them using that phrase in the linked thread?
What’s wrong with it anyway?
replyI don't see it either, funny how people had a knee jerk reaction without even visiting the thread and validating that the phrase even exists. Maybe it's even further down but without logging in I can't see it.
replyThat quote is in the linked EFF statement, which you clearly didn't read.
replyTrue, I was looking at the linked thread as mentioned not the article.
replyRemind me again what the Q in LGBTQ stands for?
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