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    1 year ago

    That’s to be expected. Now the question is will it keep falling or is it gonna start rising instead.
    To be honest, I hope it burns down.

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      1 year ago

      People keep submitting this sort of post like it’s unexpected.

      They think Lemmy can grow into a legitimate platform, but the one with millions of users and backed by one of the largest companies on the planet, which already runs social media platforms, is doomed…

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        That’s a good point, you should post it to Google+

        Okay, google only has youtube, while meta has facebook which is closer to this type of social media, but still

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    23.6 million is still really high for a new social platform. I don’t know if it’s sustainable as I don’t see how people popular for images can translate their fame to microblogging but the next year or 6 months will be helpful to know if this was successful.

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      Yeah. But tbh a LOT of threads activity is bots. It’s been very clear from the get go that the numbers have been inflated using bots. More and more social media companies are going to use bots to inflate their numbers now.

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      I think people popular for anything could easily include microblogging, as long as they also keep doing the original thing. Lots of celebs, internet and otherwise, fare alright. It’s a chance to worsen the parasocial relationship “become closer to their fans,” and all they have to do is not be racist. Usually.

      If any of my artists have a blogging platform, I usually read it out of curiosity

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      Probably ai generated. The writing on the sewing machine looks like the weird alien language the ai uses to secretly communicate with other ai.