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This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads (self.fediverse)

submitted 2 years ago by MusketeerX to c/fediverse

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Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?

Even allowing people to follow that account?

Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.

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[–] DuckDuckGoneForGood 66 points 2 years ago (12 children)

I fucking KNEW it.

35 million users my asshole - they’re just counting existing Instagram accounts.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Pretty sure they’re not. I mean those are instagram accounts, but only those who enabled threads. It’s also at 93 million now.

Why is it so hard to believe that people download the app and try it out? It’s easy to do, users don’t have to create a new account, the app is number one on the App Store, they’re probably advertising it in instagram, and it’s still just 20% of the instagram userbase.

Decentralization is nice, but most people don’t care about it and it’s too complicated or annoying to sign up there. Threads is dead simple and people want a Twitter replacement. It’s also "just" a fifth of the Twitter userbase.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Most of the people just care for "the hot new thing" some just dislike twitter more, some are forced by friends to use it (me :( )

Is kinda weird seeing so many people on Lemmy just do not trust any data from social media.

The things of the fediverse is that everything is too complicated, seeing my friends signups for Threads they just downloaded 1 app, and max 7 clicks and they made an account, they thought Mastodon was too hard to use :(

[–] zuhayr 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It isn't very easy to get hold of for the "uninitiated". Which is partially a good thing, in my opinion. Meaningful interactions require effort.

[–] Cabrio 0 points 2 years ago

Barriers to entry improve the quality of participants.

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