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!?!
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