I wonder what percentage of those left are bots?
post
dailybeast hitting the "trump humiliated" button twice in two days.
Settle down, Beavis.
Difficult to humiliate someone with so little self-awareness.
Damn you know compute is getting expensive when even the fascists can't afford their disinfo bots
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
Doesn't matter of they go vote or not when the elections are rigged.
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 a regular at one of my local pubs has/had an account strictly for rage baiting those who he calls "MAGATs". I enjoy the enthusiasm but we live in Scotland so I'm not sure I'll be joining him.
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?
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.
I think the word "truth" is scaring them off. Rebrand it like it is - "Liar's Central".
That should do it.
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.
I'm honestly surprised - i would think that a social media platform designed to attract the rubiest marks to have ever been grifted would be an incredibly viable product.
But you can pay $100k/month for early access to his posts.
What I don't understand is why people are still on Facebook and X. They should start a community on the Fediverse.
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.
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.
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...
You can tell by looking around their lips, eyes, and the places where they put their hands on their forehead that the fake bronze they apply to their face is just a silly facade for a weak and frail old person. They are nothing without their bronzer. Their base would instantly defect upon seeing their true self. Everything about them is a fraud.

Who is them?
Trump is not a them. Trump is an it.
Maybe the simplest explanation is the one nobody in Trump’s orbit wants to hear: people are getting bored of him! The outrage, insults and permanent culture war worked when every post felt like an event. After a decade, it’s background noise. Truth Social isn’t just losing users: it may be measuring the slow deflation of the Trump personality cult.
Even for the people he's picking a fight with.
Europe's policy for Trump and tariff threats is to wait and send a few grey suited bureaucrats to discuss paperwork. They engage with the Greenland threat by arming themselves with home built weapons.
Iran has learned it's mostly bark and low stamina so they do what they want now.
Hopefully the EU keeps doing exactly this: stay calm, send the grey suits to discuss tariffs, quietly build its own weapons and refuse to turn every Trump threat into a five alarm crisis.
He doesn't care how many people use it. It served it's purpose. It started when he was banned from social media. So he could keep ranting and raving.
He also used it launching to make a bunch of money. Then he used it to help launch his meme coin rug pull to make even more tons of money. Since then he's been using it to openly manipulating the stock market over and over for his own personal gain. He's now using it as a platform to directly sell the right to make tons of money insider trading to anyone willing to pay $100,000/month.
The only two type of people who matter to him on his scam social media platform are the people paying him all that money for early access to whatever bullshit he plans to say to manipulate the stock market, and all the news agencies who are always so excited to grab any new rambling insanity he shits out there and post articles to make sure everyone hears about it... which is how he manipulates the stock market to begin with.
I don’t buy that he doesn’t care about the user numbers. Trump may love money, but he also seems addicted to attention, audience size and dominating the conversation. A shrinking Truth Social hits exactly where it hurts: fewer people choosing to listen to him directly.
all 62 comments