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.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Definitely not. I didn’t come to the Fediverse to be under social media companies again.

    • Edu4rdSHL@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Almost same take here - but I also understand that there may be some people which would use/try it for whatever reasons.

  • Neirin@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    Nope. If I wanted something similar to twitter, I would use Mastodon, not Meta’s privacy hell.

  • froggers@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    it’s kinda weird to me that some people are ?excited? about it. it’s Meta, it’s the Zuck Suck. it’s a twatter clone, and we all know how’s that going after another rich twat took it over, and isn’t it already full of the “crazies”? like to me, it has all the hallmarks of being just another soulless cash grab by another megacorp to take twatter’s place, not that it’s surprising. so it’s a resounding no from me.

    • Jmr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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

  • ehrenschwan@feddit.deEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Kaldo@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • C_M@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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

  • Clbull@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Privacy-wise, I already use Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram, and I’m pretty sure that Mark Zuckerberg knows everything that he’d ever want to know about me. I largely believe in the conspiracy theory that Meta actively listens in on users in some way to serve them ads and targeted content, even if the evidence is circumstantial at best.

    Despite this, would I still use Threads? Probably not.

    Microblogging isn’t my thing. 140 characters is nowhere near enough space to articulate your thoughts and it feels like the site was originally designed around SMS text message limitations more than anything. I also don’t like how the only way you can get any genuine interaction on places like Twitter or even Mastodon is to be a celebrity.

    I do agree that we should collectively defederate Threads much in the same way that everybody on the fediverse collectively blacklisted Gab, not necessarily as a fuck-you to Zuckerberg, but because a flood of Instagram normies would completely cripple other instances with traffic.