Will people here use/try Meta’s #threads when available? Would love to know the reasons or if it would be just for fun/curiosity.
The amount of data collected is insane imo.
My brother in Christ, you’re asking people on Lemmy if they’re going to try meta spyware
I wouldn’t try meta’s anything.
I wouldn’t try a meta fire extinguisher if I was on fire.
It would first take all your clothes and then read your mind. Then it will make you accept COokies and figure out your height, weight, gender, friends and family. After all that it will finally work but it extuingishes the wrong fire
Lol wtf no
Definitely not. I didn’t come to the Fediverse to be under social media companies again.
Almost same take here - but I also understand that there may be some people which would use/try it for whatever reasons.
They can try all day. I will not. Mastodon it is for me.
Nope. If I wanted something similar to twitter, I would use Mastodon, not Meta’s privacy hell.
I’m torn between “Fuck no!” and “What? Seriously?”
Like, why would anyone even want to?
Nah, I’m good
Not touching that, nope.
Never.
Nope. Meta’s business practices are cancer.
Absolutely not
The amount of data collected is so insane that it won’t come out in the EU for now. And I like it that way.
Now these are news for me, thanks for the info.
It doesn’t have to come to EU to get this data though, all it has to do is start federating. I’m really curious how is that all going to work out, legally speaking.
Not totally true, the real value is combining data from different sources, but since the data they get wont have your email /ip/device/contacts etc it will be a lot harder to harvest usefully for advertising. Maybe they will figure out things to use it, but what they can use is already quite public, so they don’t really need to federatie for that
Nah, don’t want meta to collect even more data about me than before.
Literally the first time I am hearing about this now.
I hate FB but I think I hate Elon even more, so if Thread kills off Twitter that would be great.
But I have my doubts.
Everyone already hates all the bullshit that FB does and flying under the Meta banner changes nothing. The tech/young/hip demographics needed to get a platform going seem to be distancing themselves away from FB as being an “uncool” company.
Meta has alienated so many people that they are going to have a hard time breeaking into new product categories because people just don’t want to use their products unless essentially forced to. Look at their VR headsets. From a hardware perspective they really are quite good, but so many stupid, stupid policy decisions (such as needing a FB account originally) that folks rather do without than deal with them.
I tired of having the least worst of the two horrible options, I’m sticking to lemmy, it’s finally the third option that isn’t bad
I agree with you about Lemmy, but this site (as well as Reddit) weren’t really Twitter competitors. Totally different type of platforms.
I’m not so sure.
People don’t understand tech. Instagram is still a trendy app for people and the name change to Meta might have been enough for people to forget that’s it’s all still Facebook.
Threads seems to be aligning and integrating with Instagram more than anything.
Of course not, what’s the point? Fediverse (Mastodon, PixelFed, Lemmy) is fine and dandy for me!
