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A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users (boingboing.net)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For real?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yep. One reason might be that FB just took a biiiig blow on their entire business model from the highest court in the EU (which came in front of court after an action by in turn the biggest sub-market (Germany)'s anti-trust watchdog bureau got active against them):

NYT article

(Mirror)

Also a source for the actual claim from above:

https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html

Edit; also this: https://lemmy.world/post/1732201