Active users of President Donald Trump’s social media platform have dropped like flies.
Trump’s Truth Social site, where he threatens other countries and posts self-aggrandizing AI slop, has experienced a dramatic drop in daily active users of its mobile app since last July, according to the Financial Times.
The outlet, citing estimates from the digital market intelligence company SimilarWeb, reported that the mobile site’s daily active users have plummeted from 436,000 in July 2025 to only 261,000 one year later.
It’s gotta be exhausting using a social media platform whose content is 100% politics all the time and its entire existence is in itself a political statement. Like, people complain about politics on Lemmy but at least you can sort of just ignore it and scroll past it. Yes, it’s invasive, but there are places where political discussion is pretty much verboten, especially the casual conversation areas.
Meanwhile, I doubt there’s a single post on Truth Social that isn’t politics-adjacent somehow, or if it isn’t it quickly becomes one as people praise Trump for the good things happening in their life or curse Trump’s enemies when bad things happen to them. “Took a big shit today. Real satisfying. God Bless the USA and DJT.”. “Anybody notice how chip bags are mostly just air now? We should prosecute the democrats for this.”.
Surprised anybody still uses the platform, tbh.
Did someone not pay their bot farm bill?
So if you have about 10 users and 4 leave…
The only ones left are the true sycophants and reporters.
Exodus?! You mean like in the Bible? He really IS our savior!
Damn you know compute is getting expensive when even the fascists can’t afford their disinfo bots
I think the word “truth” is scaring them off. Rebrand it like it is - “Liar’s Central”.
That should do it.
I wonder what percentage of those left are bots?
I’d be more curious what percentage are reporters that feel they need accounts
I wonder what finally drove away the people. Maybe some new rage bait bullshit has captured their attention? Hard to accept they’ve improved.
Guessing a lot of old people either died or lost their login info.
Hahaha good point!
The problem is the type of people that join TS (or any other alt-right tech social service) are not actually happy preaching to the choir. They need people to argue with. So they inevitably go right back to twitter, threads, reddit, etc. when they realize they aren’t getting the negative attention that they’re used to receiving for trolling on mainstream social platforms.
twitter, threads, reddit, etc.
Anecdotally, they seem to especially looooove FB and Nextdoor.
FB is so deeply enshittified that any time I check in there (really fucking rare, let me tell you) I seem to only see a lot of posts from the Crazy Uncle Liberties in my life sandwiched between so much sponsored content. FB was never perfect, but it’s so much worse now.
And by the time I joined Nextdoor, it was already chock full of Karens trying to slip in their conservative (and racist, but I repeat myself) bullshit in between complaints about what “the kids are up to these days”.
I just made a Nextdoor account a few weeks ago out of curiosity. Quickly regretting it. My neighbors are all the most paranoid fuckwits on the planet. Maybe if they weren’t such nosy busybodies they wouldn’t be so scared by things like black people existing in public or literally any unidentified substance they find being fentanyl.
It’s not even the racist ones that disappoint me, I just kind of expect that from living in a community inhabited by mostly white middle class retirees, it’s like the ones that are so devoid of critical thinking skills that they jump to wild conclusions based on nothing, and apparently that’s just the way those people live their lives each day.
Found a bit of roadkill? Someone must be torturing and murdering the neighborhood pets and put their bodies on display! Call the police!
Found a one dollar bill tucked underneath your welcome mat? Someone must be casing your house and put that there to see if/when you collect it to know what times you are home! Call the police!
et cetera, you get the idea. I wish this was hyperbole, but the two examples above are real.
Yeah, honestly, it brings me back to my childhood and having to rub elbows with a lot of very, very stupid people, because of the area I lived in and how the stupidest kids tend to be loudest (and same with their parents) and so on. I could not be as selective then as I can now with who I choose to associate with.
Back then, things were done in meatspace and with analog tools. But it was quite stupid then, too. For example, the “blue stars” urban legend (before we knew of the term urban legend) was something just swallowed hook, line, and sinker - by most parents, by cops, by teachers…meanwhile, ~10 year me is wondering, wait, what? LSD is not even addictive, WTF. Also, kids back then had next to no discretionary income…why would you try to “hook” them on a non-addictive substance.
Same thing with so much stupid shit - the notion that the Satanic Church profited from arcade games. Or that a groundhog really did determine how long winter would last (kids my age absolutely fucking believed that well past the stage, and I think at least one parent seemingly did, unless they were just trying to amuse their junior high age child).
I guess all I’m saying is that Nextdoor amplifies this, but I’ve also had lots of evidence that there are just a LOT of very stupid people.
That’s why fasc talk shows always have a fake lefty stooge for them to boo.
Exactly. They need an out-group to feel superior to.
Can’t they just do what we do, fight each other?
RWAs might have their beefs, but given their proclivities (the “A” is for authoritarian, after all), they tend to want a Big Daddy to look up to.
Anyone joining up on TS, unless they are there to just tap into what the crazies are up to are likely part of the cult of Donvict and probably are nearly all RWAs.
Any self-styled “true conservative” (lol) that truly does not have RWA tendencies is not going to last very long, say, arguing against Big Daddy’s tariffs and how they mess with the miracles of free trade.
Says the lesser leftist, your ideas aren’t as good as mine
sez you!
Additionally, they left Twitter in the first place because they perceived it as too liberal. X doesn’t have that reputation.
I think X also said Trump could come back, making his exile entirely self-imposed now.
Maybe he doesn’t know it was renamed.
Hopefully it’s because they were boomers and died
omg yes pls
Honestly a lot of social media is bots.
I found one, guys!
dailybeast hitting the “trump humiliated” button twice in two days.
Settle down, Beavis.
Difficult to humiliate someone with so little self-awareness.
You just have to do it on Truth Social so it shows up on his feed
Pretty sure that’s a jailable offense there.
What I don’t understand is why people are still on Facebook and X. They should start a community on the Fediverse.
Network effect is hard to overcome. Just try getting a few people to sign up with the Fediverse, nevermind an entire group. I remember trying to tell co-workers - in tech, mind you - about Diaspora and how they should sign up and check it.
I was met with dumb stares or questions about how it’s going to work if there is no money in it, or asking about “who is on it” (meaning, celebrities and so on) etc.
And that is from people in tech. JFC. Nevermind trying to explain it to people who have zero interest in tech…
I felt like I was talking to normies in the pre (public) Internet days and trying to explain USENET to them, or explaining BBSes…
The retired navy guy who owns a bar in ohio and his friend group knows nothing about the fediverse, are not exposed to people who would.
Fuck, it seems many people in tech don’t know about it, either. At least from my anecdotal experience.
Old habits die hard.
Facebook hides its true colors well enough that they layman has no idea why they should avoid it. X on the other hand openly has a CSAM generator running as a feature, and people are fine with it.
You mean, the people who know why social networks such as Facebook and X are bad, who despise their owners, know of the existence of the fediverse, how to use it and want to be fediverse evangelists in their social circle? Dozens of them.
Why did anyone use it in the first place… He’s the only one I’ve ever heard of that uses it. Is a 40% drop like 4 people?
The 50+ y/o gay bus driver that is regular at one of my local pubs has/had an account strictly for rage batting those who he calls “MAGATs”. I enjoy the enthusiasm but we live in Scotland so I’m not sure I’ll be joining him.
This made me laugh. Thanks :D
Hey now, my batshit crazy aunt-in-law used it.
Yeah but the drop off in followers among even the top 10 most followed accounts has got to be massive. Like who even is #2 on the list?
Screeching Nullo Miller?
My guess would be Jr.
In spite of all the bits of hopeful news, I’m still worried about the midterms.
same.
sure, Americans are tired of him… some even hate him… but do they really HATE him enough to go vote? to change their personal politics?
I don’t think so. not yet. energy and food prices have to keep going up a lot before we get to Nixon or Orban levels of disgust.
or Trump would have to reinstate the draft or something similar (that personally impacts large numbers of conservatives and centrists).
That’s assuming he does find some bullshit reason to declare a national emergency to cancel/reject the election, or tamper excessively
Trump will get “assassinated” by “Iran” soon. JD Vance will take the helm, declare a national emergency, suspend midterms and go full boots on ground invasion of the middle East.
Maybe a bit too much tinfoil in my hat but this is the craziest timeline lol
And they’ll start a draft but only in blue states and cities.
Doesn’t matter of they go vote or not when the elections are rigged.
Once Twitter was bought out by Elon, the writing as on the wall for Truth.social. It only got initial traction because Trump was banned from Twitter. Once Twitter was yanked violently to the right into X, there was no need for Truth.social, as both systems are effectively providing the same propaganda to the same audience.
The Fediverse has 1.2 million monthly users.
If Truth Social would open up, would instances be willing to federate?
no
I mean who the fuck needs a racist alternative to twitter when twitter exists?
Truth Social was created before Twitter was bought by a fascist. At that time Trump was banned from Twitter.
