So we're gonna sit here and pretend that there weren't automatic sign-ups for Instagram users? They got signed up without choice. Facebook did that.

Edit: I was wrong! I remember reading about this early on, but I think I read misinformation. Sorry about that.

It’s severe lack of features was its downfall. I signed up and my feed was full of random celebs with no way to filter it to people you follow (apparently they added this recently). But the main issue NO FCKING SEARCH, you can only search for accounts nothing else. Discoverability if you are not a famous person is basically 0. No hashtags so no discussion of specific trends or topics. No Trends in general.

That's okay, it's still sending all your data to Meta, and that's the important thing.

This is literally just what happens with new tech, nobody expects even 50% retention from when it's new and hot.

FOMO was the big driver here. Once they saw Threads sucked, the peaced out.

Actually I am one of them who signed up during the initial hype. I was on twitter few years before. Was fed up and deleted the account. Started thread since I like twitter like social media. But it was full of stolen post from reddit and twitter. The same stupid memes I saw in reddit, lemmy etc are present there. Nothing interesting. I can get all the news, memes and entertaining contents from reddit and lemmy. Why the hell should I see that again in threads? Then there are people who is using it like instagram and Facebook. Just posting thier photos in different poses. I still have the app, but hasn't spent 5 minutes in the last week.

Lack of trends and hashtag search is a big no for me.

i know a whole bunch of people who signed up just because, looked around, and the never used it again.

Launching a new social media network and not making it available in the EU is really dumb imho.

Can't expect people who are actually still using twitter to stop at this point.

Nearly half still using it is actually pretty good. Stupid headline.

No shit, it's S-tier shit and they were signed up without asking to be.

Most? The article says "more than half" so which is it?