Can you go into more detail?

[1]:

  name    tfic%  pop        pop%   B/D
  Taiwan  0.1056 23112793   0.0028 37.61x
  Japan   0.0822 123103479  0.0150  5.50x
  Vietnam 0.0413 101598527  0.0123  3.35x
  USA     0.0367 347275807  0.0422  0.87x
  Brazil  0.0229 212812405  0.0259  0.89x
  Others  0.7112 7423710059 0.9019  0.79x
  (total) 0.9999 8231613070 1.0000  1.00x

Looks like, Taiwan took it, maybe Japan too.

I'm guessing that the moral of the story is, social media cannot be multilingual/multinational. Either one culture dominates, or the system don't work.

1: https://www.similarweb.com/website/threads.net/#geography

edit: edited to add column C, D, E from [2]; Column E, B/D, is traffic divided by population count as share of world's, which I think should indicate how much differences in popularity there is.

2: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/population-by...

I just quickly tried to look up the current state of Threads-Mastodon integration, and I think that this is the current state:

- Threads users have to individually opt-in to seeing Fediverse content

- Threads keeps Fediverse content in a separate feed and section of the replies

- Many Fediverse servers do not federate with Threads

- Threads and Mastodon users can search for each other

- Threads and Mastodon users can boost/like each other's posts

- Threads and Mastodon users can reply to each other's posts, but I don't think replying to replies works yet

Corrections welcome. I could have some details wrong.

I view this as something that Meta would turn off in a heartbeat if they gained a dominant position in the market, but I also think that a possible end-state for microblogging is Threads + Bluesky + Twitter + Truth Social + WordPress + Tumblr + Flipboard + various independent Mastodon and other Fediverse instances all federating with each other.

And I appreciate that so far Meta has put in the work towards seeing how that would work.

https://about.fb.com/news/2025/06/its-now-easier-see-more-fe...

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/06/what-is-the-fediverse/

https://www.engadget.com/threads-can-now-show-replies-from-m...

News TV channels in Taiwan that I usually watch, very often use videos from Threads for local news reporting (stuff sent in by the public). X-originated ones pretty much disappeared for the same use. This doesn't account for millions of users (by a long shot), but definitely a noticeable shift.

You probably aren't their target demographic. Are you from the US or from EU?

Did you ever think that "what you see" is not the whole reality or even close to important to the state of the world?

It's just a bias of what cultures you are more exposed to. The same with messaging apps, different societies huddled in different apps.

It's probably country specific. The country you live in might be on Twitter, but many are on Threads.

Social networks live on network effects. You don't choose a social network, you just go where everyone else is.

X is designed for controversy. Threads is designed for anti-controversy. Meta has deliberately discouraged and downplayed politics on Threads. Screenshots are mostly of controversial stuff.