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nabla9 ◴[] No.42150372[source]
Threads has 275 million monthly active users.

Bluesky has now 15 million total users (how many active?)

Mastodon monthly active usage has dropped below 1 million.

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lynndotpy ◴[] No.42150492[source]
I believe Threads active users are artificially conflated with Instagram and Facebook. In all my circles, I don't know anyone who uses Threads
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1. criley2 ◴[] No.42150552[source]
In all my circles, I don't know a single "X" user. Not even one. Anecdotes are funny like that.

Facebook monthly active users: >3 billion

Instagram monthly active users: >2 billion

Threads monthly active users: ~275 million

If they're cheating, they're doing a poor job of it.

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2. emidoots ◴[] No.42150604[source]
When you post on Instagram, there are opt-out features that will 'automatically share to your Threads account too' and you can see Threads notifications in the Instagram app and such .. so I think it's reasonable to assume they are leveraging the Instagram user-base a bit.
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3. changing1999 ◴[] No.42150639[source]
Just double checking - there is an opt-out feature that cross-posts all IG posts to Threads?
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4. threeseed ◴[] No.42150701[source]
Threads is literally built on Instagram so of course they are leveraging it.

But that's very different from saying that Threads MAUs aren't specific to that platform.

5. kiitos ◴[] No.42153187{3}[source]
No, there isn't, at least not by default. You have to explicitly create a Threads account.
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6. slimsag ◴[] No.42154767{4}[source]
...and once you have a threads account, the UI in instagram pushes you to one-click accept cross-posting everything to Threads