Threads is off to a strong start, with about 25m active users a week in. It’s a lot, but it’s nowhere near Twitter numbers, even after a year of decline there. Threads becoming the new …
Yep. One reason might be that FB just took a biiiig blow on their entire business model from the highest court in the EU (which came in front of court after an action by in turn the biggest sub-market (Germany)'s anti-trust watchdog bureau got active against them):
Let’s not forget that thread’s data collection is so atrocious that it didn’t launch in small and exotic markets like… Say… The whole of the EU.
I sure wish the United States would write some pro-consumer privacy legislation…
But what about my Quarterly Profits!?!
Man, they should change the saying to “the road to hell is paved with quarterly profits”
For real?
Yep. One reason might be that FB just took a biiiig blow on their entire business model from the highest court in the EU (which came in front of court after an action by in turn the biggest sub-market (Germany)'s anti-trust watchdog bureau got active against them):
NYT article
(Mirror)
Also a source for the actual claim from above:
https://www.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html
Edit; also this: https://lemmy.world/post/1732201