there was discussion a while back on the lemmy github about federated communities

season three was passable at best. people only say it was good because the first two were so unbelievably dogshit

i actually thought i would go take a look at threads. when i tried to log in on my PC it told me i had to download the app on my phone before it would let me log in with the account they already apparently created for me.

so i left and havent been back

Similar thing happened to signal when whatsapp made some unpopular changes.

Lots of people looking for alternatives in sites that arent used to the traffic. I am part of that problem