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[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 83 points 1 year ago

I'd argue that the initial sign up week people should not be classified as "daily active users" Lots of people will check something out when it launches, I'd only start measuring actual usage after a month or two.

[-] Helix@feddit.de 26 points 1 year ago

But shareholders want big numbers.

[-] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

I don’t know what your talking about 80% is pretty big.

[-] Schedar@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

exactly what I was thinking. That big starting number is misleading at best.

[-] StoicLime@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

And 80 percent of over 100 million users is still 20-30m active users.

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

You're bad at math (or more likely bad at wording things properly), 80% of 100million is 80 million....

[-] StoicLime@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

The article says 80 percent of the users left. If you had more context, you would have got what I said.

[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Really those "DAU" numbers should be rolling average numbers per month, because there's far too much user variability even week to week for any data to be reliable.

[-] Rentlar@beehaw.org 47 points 1 year ago

Threads is on track to earn the title of "most actively dropped social network".

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Any downfall of Meta (former Facebook ) is a victory for FOSS community, internet and mankind as a whole. One of the heads of the Hydra Big Tech.

[-] jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

inb4 they federate and tell their investors all the fediverse users are theirs

[-] Poob@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 year ago

We wouldn't even move the amount by a percent

[-] alternative_factor@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

I signed up to it from instagram to track my favorite epidemiologists and h5n1 only to discover it has no hashtag system to look up trending topics and most of my favorite epidemiologists aren't even on it. So it's worthless for even following COVID, avian flu, and probably every other news topic.

[-] bl4kers@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

I thought it was explicitly anti-news and politics?

[-] alternative_factor@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

Ah well that would be why it's completely pointless to me. Since all science is politicized now, I guess there is no reason to use it.

[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Being attached to Instagram is really the only reason it took off imo. Of course all the normal Insta users are going to at least try it out because it's so "easy" to sign up.

[-] theodewere@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

must be sort of a wake up for all of the platform owners to see the user base be so fluid like that.. like any of them could get flushed down a toilet at any moment..

[-] JoeMacUser@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

Where do they get their data from? I doubt them. So does Gruber. https://daringfireball.net/2023/08/whats_the_deal_with_sensor_tower

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