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.

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[–] [S] 87 points 3 months ago (20 children)

I wonder what percentage of those left are bots?

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (16 children)

    I wonder what finally drove away the people. Maybe some new rage bait bullshit has captured their attention? Hard to accept they've improved.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 months ago* (11 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Can’t they just do what we do, fight each other?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Additionally, they left Twitter in the first place because they perceived it as too liberal. X doesn't have that reputation.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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".

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 50 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    dailybeast hitting the "trump humiliated" button twice in two days.

    Settle down, Beavis.

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  • [–] [S] 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Difficult to humiliate someone with so little self-awareness.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago

    Damn you know compute is getting expensive when even the fascists can't afford their disinfo bots

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    In spite of all the bits of hopeful news, I'm still worried about the midterms.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    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).

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    That's assuming he does find some bullshit reason to declare a national emergency to cancel/reject the election, or tamper excessively

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago

    Did someone not pay their bot farm bill?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Hey now, my batshit crazy aunt-in-law used it.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    The only ones left are the true sycophants and reporters.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    I think the word "truth" is scaring them off. Rebrand it like it is - "Liar's Central".

    That should do it.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    You forget that these people find the very existence of brown and black people exhausting. As a result, their stupid little safe space being full of political nonsense is still less stressful to them than the real world.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    But you can pay $100k/month for early access to his posts.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Exodus?! You mean like in the Bible? He really IS our savior!

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    What I don't understand is why people are still on Facebook and X. They should start a community on the Fediverse.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    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...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    So if you have about 10 users and 4 leave....

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (4 children)

    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.

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    [–] 37 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    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.

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    so like, 4 people left?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Isn't it just old people dying of preventable diseases?

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