I’ll double down on my original prediction: Threads is a dud.

building @yup

try crossposting to farcaster and twitter at yup.io . join /yup

Let’s check back in 30 days from now. Growth will be decelerating and churn will be high.

The app is sufficiently good, Elon hate palpable atm, twitter restrictions/need for monetization is a serious disadvantage, social graph and retroactive follows amazing for retention, b/w Instagram distribution and the mma fight meme I could see gen z coming and staying

Anti-another app is not a sustainable growth strategy

It might be when you have a larger network than the other app

I’d argue 90% of my twitter friends have Instagram, no other social network can say that and the reverse isn’t true

It’s also about politics and gaming and a million other things.. without which it becomes way less valuable

Twitter is about high status intellectual Internet public square and blood sport arena