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The new data — comprehensive and definitive — should put to rest the countervailing narratives over Musk’s management of the app. Under his stewardship, X’s daily user base has declined from an estimated 140 million users to 121 million, with a widening gap between people who check the app daily vs. monthly. X’s remaining daily users are engaged similarly as before. But the pool is shrinking. Apptopia pulls its data from more than 100,000 apps on iOS and Android, along with publicly available sources.

So apparently it lost only 13% of daily users? Thats a smaller number than I thought. Still bad news for Twitter though.

On the other hand, it shows the power of content creators and niche communities. I used less Twitter but cannot delete it because it is literally how I connect with my niche community on there.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can subscribe to news or to Lemmy topics via RSS, you don't need an account unless you want to reply/comment/post. RSS allows you to subscribe on topic you actually like or want and ignore other stuff. Not having an account can help to be more productive and spend less time talking with others. I have not even a Google account so I can't neither like or comment on youtube videos or other places that needs an account and I'm totally okay. My only social accounts are this and a Mastodon user I don't use anymore as RSS is actually how I want to get the news or people opinions/posts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RSS allows you to subscribe on topic you actually like or want and ignore other stuff.

subscription on lemmy allows you the exact same thing. i don't see how scrolling through your rss reader should be any different from scrolling through the lemmy app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because RSS works with an app that manages more RSS from others sites with different configurations you can set plus some filters you can do to that RSS list. So for me, the RSS app gives me more control on what I have read or not from not only Lemmy news (plus some filters I do, a pre-prosessing after fetching the RSS list using Javascript code). And you don't even need a Lemmy account for that.