My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

3 points by robalex

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Threads will pass 500 million monthly active users and remain the largest ActivityPub-adjacent platform by a wide margin. But see the next prediction:

I don't know a single person who has ever mentioned Threads, admitted to using it. No one is even complaining about it.

Aks

I would not be surprised if most users are LLMs.
zimpenfish

The only time I'm reminded that Threads exists if I post something on Instagram (once a year at this point) or (IIRC) sometimes it'll say "this comment also posted to Threads" if someone has crossposted a reel between Threads and Instagram.