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Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts (www.nbcnews.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Data from two research firms and figures published by Musk and X suggest a deteriorating situation for X by some metrics. Musk has marketed it as the world’s “town square,” but in number of users it continues to lag far behind social media rivals that focus on video, such as Instagram and TikTok.

In February, X had 27 million daily active users of its mobile app in the U.S., down 18% from a year earlier, according to Sensor Tower, a market intelligence firm based in San Francisco. The U.S. user base has been flat or down every month since November 2022, the first full month of Musk’s owning the app, and in total it’s down 23% since then, Sensor Tower said.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

A laugh react is more insidious than a thumbs down.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Underrated observation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

My point was that a laugh react is meant to be a positive interaction (what you said was funny, and I enjoyed your contribution) but has been co-opted as a negative reaction (I'm laughing at what a willfully ignorant idiot you are) because FB only wanted to provide users with positive ways to react. My concern wasn't the level of negativity, only to provide the person to whom I was replying with a other example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think that was clear, my further comment was to highlight how far off (maybe), FB's implementation intent has been from the way people are now using it.

Yes, in a joke or funny post the laugh emoji is used as intended. But in a more serious announcement it is the equivalent of mocking disgust, hence more emotionally devastating than a thumbs down.

Eg say someone posts a somber poem about their late father - a laughing emoji is saying "fuck you, I laugh at your pain or your shitty poem or the memory of your dad".

The only question is, why, now that they've seen how it's used don't they let people disallow certain reactions. I'm assuming because emotional distress is more addictive..