this week's fediverse reports has some more thoughts on Threads' user statistics, and about Holos, an upcoming project that allows you to run an ActivityPub server on your phone
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Fediverse Report – #145
I was interviewed about how media can use new social platforms
Happy that they explicitly mention why I do this work: sure, big tech bad, but the main point is that social media are collective sense making tools, and thats what makes them so extraordinarily valuable
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no wait i was just trying to figure out which churn rate you need starting with the assumption of currently equal DAUs. but 6% annual churn is ridiculously low for a microblogging platform, its much higher than that
so these numbers are actually really good for threads it seems
so maybe 8% for threads is actually quite high in this context, once you factor in that twitter has incredibly high cultural saliency and threads having no cultural saliency
so im weaking my hypothesis that meta is doing some highly optimistic number counting, and im back to Threads mainly having an international nonwestern audience. which would also explain its low cultural impact on english speaking internet
this week's fediverse news is about how Newsmast is building apps for local news publishers that combines their articles with social media feeds, combining news with the fediverse into a single app
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Fediverse Report – #144