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Agreed. The fact that their Threads account[0] is still active (remember that site? yeah, me neither, I had forgotten it existed until I saw it linked on eff.or
by bakugo 6mo ago
Agreed. The fact that their Threads account[0] is still active (remember that site? yeah, me neither, I had forgotten it existed until I saw it linked on eff.org's socials page) makes it clear that the opening statement about "the numbers not working out" is deceptive.
You have to scroll down a bit further to find their real reason for preferring those sites:
> people of color, queer folks, activists, and organizers use Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook every day
[0] https://www.threads.com/@efforg https://www.threads.com/@efforg
- matt-attack 6mo ago[flagged]
- MidnightRider39 6mo agoI don’t even see them using that phrase in the linked thread? What’s wrong with it anyway?
- satvikpendem 6mo agoI 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.
- throwawaypath 6mo agoThat quote is in the linked EFF statement, which you clearly didn't read.
- satvikpendem 6mo agoTrue, I was looking at the linked thread as mentioned not the article.
- pixl97 6mo agoRemind me again what the Q in LGBTQ stands for?
- mrguyorama 6mo agoHow is the EFF charter incompatible with saying "Queer folks"? What are you even saying with this criticism? Do you think queer folks were never going to come up in "Digital rights"?
- lux-lux-lux 6mo agoYou’re a little behind the times, mate. Threads has more daily active users than X and is growing quickly vs. the latter’s cratering usage rates. Demographics trend younger, too.
- satvikpendem 6mo agoDAU 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.
- lux-lux-lux 6mo ago> I personally know no one who uses Threads Real ‘I don’t know anyone who voted for Nixon’ energy here.
- satvikpendem 6mo agoThat'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?
- theshackleford 6mo ago> I personally know no one who uses Threads. I 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.
- bakugo 6mo agoSorry 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. Even 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.