Meta says they now have half a billion monthly active users on #Threads.
This is about 100x that of #Bluesky, and about 500x that of #Mastodon, at only about 3 years old. How do *you* explain this?
https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta-launching-new-features-500-million-monthly-threads-users/
Johannes Ernst
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2026-06-16 16:43:28 UTC
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