For HN posts in the last week Twitter leads Threads 106-2. Not necessarily a representative sample her, but lopsided enough to make me very skeptical of the claim that Threads has more active users.
The subcommunity that would have tweets on HN has stayed on Twitter. There are entire separate subcommunities on Twitter that have just died in the past year.
It's like saying you don't see any Instagram posts on HN, so Instagram must be tiny. Its more likely the subcommunities that post on Threads don't have overlap with HN.
Not meaningful in what sense? Sure you’re right, if you mean in the sense of relevancy for the general public. But this definitely is meaningful as it relates to X and Threads relevancy to HN
Instagram has more users than Twitter, but generates no or few HN posts. Something can be used without generating any notable news or information.
I've tried threads. Moderately engaging. Took nothing from it. Twitter has a HN like quality where there's a lot that's unimportant and occasionally you see something you'd see nowhere else.
Technically yea but in practice no because everyone else who matters defederated it (makes sense, I don't want to help Zuckerberg do another embrace extend extinguish)
Twitter has more prominent tech people and politicians, I'd love to follow them somewhere else, but alas.
They way I would describe Threads is TikTok but with text. Actual people posting things are surfaced on my default feed, not corporations or engagement chasing influencers.
This is going to sounds stupid, but threads isn't twitter, so its not going to have quite the same content.
One of the more pleasing things about threads is that the "for you" page doesn't appear to push stuff that is rage bait _for you_, (what ever your bias is)
There seems to be a weighting in favour of stuff that isn't angry. There is stuff, but it seems to ask for actual confirmation that you want to continue to see it.
Its not all roses though, they are busy fucking up notifications like they did on facebook.
How many people posting Clash of Kings related content on HN, and what does that say about their user base?
This is a weird metric to determine informational accuracy, as you're talking about a specific use case (reposting content on a 3rd-party platform), you're not accounting for user selection (is the average HN dude more likely to use X or Threads as their primary mico-blogging?) and it doesn't account for the fact that the entire FB/Threads/Instagram ecosystem feeds into itself (I'm never stumbling across X content that I want to engage with because that's now how I use the internet, but I'm constantly clicking something on IG that prompts me to give in and sign up for Threads)
Anything X says at any point about itself is likely to make me very skeptical because I think it's a dogshit site run by a bald, nepotic loser capitalist, that says nothing about the quality of the reporting or how accurate it is though.
