Hacker News Reader

Kinda? It's not like there aren't alternatives, but the user base numbers are vastly different. I'd be curious to know how many of these are active users now.

BlueSky: 1 million (Sept 2023) https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bluesky-officially-hits-1-mil...

Mastadon: 10 million (March 2023) https://www.statista.com/statistics/1376022/global-registere...

Threads: 100 million (July 2023) https://www.reuters.com/technology/metas-twitter-rival-threa...

Threads is also made by Meta

I never used Meta. Discussion platforms I use are HN, reddit, ocassionaly twitter/mastodon and online chats, like mattermost or discord.

Maybe I'm currently the minority, but even now it's not true that entirety of online discussion is controlled by Meta.

Meta's services are not public though? You can only read a few lines before you need to login, I think.