Truth Social keeps shrinking despite the Trump trial and looming election

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Former President Donald Trump hit the jackpot this spring when his social media company finally went public.

Even though Trump Media & Technology Group DJT generates very little revenue, investors are assigning an eye-popping valuation north of $9 billion to the company. Trump’s dominant stake in Trump Media is now valued at nearly $6 billion.

Yet new data shows its main product — the conservative-friendly social network Truth Social — remains a very tiny player in its industry, and it’s getting even smaller.

Truth Social’s average number of daily active US users on iOS and Android dropped by 19% year over year in April to about 113,000, according to data shared exclusively with CNN from Similarweb, a data intelligence company.

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Almost $80,000 per daily user?

They do have a unique level of access to a userbase that will believe absolutely anything you tell them.

“Here’s a piece of paper that says you own gold. That will be $2,000.”

And it is just a fork of Mastodon. Wall Street is fucked up.

Truth Social’s average number of daily active US users on iOS and Android dropped by 19% year over year in April to about 113,000,

Lordy that number is embarrassing, when comparing to Mastodon's MAU count over 847k.

And people actually paid money for this shit penny-stock.

You are comparing a daily active users figure to a monthly active users figure. Truth Social has closer to 2 million active users overall, but only 100,000 on a given day. It’s still really low for a social media company with such a popular public figure at the forefront, but it isn’t lower than Mastodon. The valuation is absolutely absurd regardless as there are so many red flags in their own SEC filings.

While I don't disagree that Truth Social is wildly overvalued and compares poorly to many other social media networks, daily average users and monthly average users are two different metrics. You can't directly compare them; daily average users will be a number smaller than monthly average users for a given network.

Add to it that Truth Social is actually running on Mastodon software.

Why is it valued so high to investors if the company makes almost no revenue? 9 billion ? What the fuck?

Let's say you're an organization (or foreign actor) who wants to get as many no-strings-attached dollars into Trump's hands as possible. You can't do that through campaign donations because those are watched way too closely. You can't just cut him a check, because that looks suspicious too. What you can do however is buy stock in the company he mostly owns, and inflate the stock price as much as you want.

Which explains why it was standard procedure for presidents to put their money in a blind trust. And why Trump didn't.

That is one hell of a theory. Not sure how you would even stop it.

You can stop it by enforcing the Emoulents Clause, and forcing Presidents to disclose all of their finances, and prove they are not taking money from any Foreign government. But Conservatives are very selective about which parts of the Constitution are worth upholding.

How many of those 113,000 are just reporters waiting for Drumph's next manufactured controversy to report on? Can they please just stop regurgitating every stupid thing he spouts?

Yeah also why the hell do they show up at the courthouse every single day after the trial and let him spew his lies? They don't do that for other people on trial they just report what happened. Why does he get to make it a campaign speech?

I commented on a Reddit post that rddt is worth less than djt currently. I hypothesized that awful moderation was worse than no moderation.

Mod banned me lol.

Well, you were technically wrong, there are more shares of RDDT than DJT, so even though RDDT is cheaper per-share than DJT after yesterday's close,, RDDT's total market cap is about $1B higher.

Still no reason for a ban. Now that RDDT is publically traded and has a much higher profile, I wonder if some enterprising lawyer can figure out a class action lawsuit against Reddit for all the people who were banned from the site for bullshit reasons. You'd probably have to prove some actual harm, though. Most Reddit bans only hurt your pride.

Got to hand it to this guy. He pulled billions of dollars out of a hat. And just when things were starting to look pretty bad.

Now he can basically afford to pay his way out of any penalty. Must be nice to be able to do that.

He was bailed out, again.

He was already bankrupt before running for presidency and Russia bailed him out.

Now he is being bailed out by China.

Where were all of those 71 million voters? Was 113k all that they could get of them?

You're saying that people who vote for him should create accounts? I mean, I don't think that that is all that surprising. I might vote for Biden over Trump because I prefer him as a president, but if Biden starts a social media company, I'm probably not gonna go move my social media activity there.

Good point. But Biden voters also rarely if ever worship Biden like some kind of deity. Trump voters on the other hand...

What's sad about images like these are really people broken by politics because they can't wrap their heads around what's going on.

They're victims of hysteria; casualties of consciousness.

Is truth social bigger than lemmy?

Probably, to be honest. Though of course that doesn't speak to the quality of its content.

Wouldn't comparing it to Mastodon make more sense? And yes Mastodon is bigger and TS is even based on their server.

Why would they stay on it when they can go back to Twitter now?

Can they, really?

Are you allowed to say the N-word on twitter?