I was ahead of the curve and didn’t sign up

Doesn’t help that you can’t use it on desktop.

This is expected. Fox News has about 1 million daily viewers. Threads can be just fine at 30 million people retained after the hype died down.

Third-party data suggests that Threads may have lost many more than half of its active users. Daily active users for Threads on Android dropped from 49 million on July 7 to 23.6 million on July 14, and then to 12.6 million on July 23, web analytics company SimilarWeb reported.

Knowing how much personal data they harvest, why on Earth would you download this malware ?