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Why would anyone voluntarily use it anyway?
It’s been out for less than ten days and it already has more than 35x the number of total users as Mastodon. It might not be for us, but saying that no one would want to use it is just sour grapes.
It’s the volume of person data it scoops up. I don’t understand why anyone would happily share that much information just to use a social media app.
I hAvE noTHinG tO hiDe
Most people just don’t care.
Unless you're willing to put in a decent amount of work, your giving someone your data. So people have gotten very 'whatever who cares' about it. Full time working people with kids aren't taking time to research. And people want to interact. If everyone is doing it, they're not going to miss out.
We have long answered the question "if your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?" There is a large percent who absolutely would.
This link has a decent comparison of a lot of social media sites' privacy policies.
For point one my parents don’t even bother to read error messages. They just close them then phone me and complain the computer is broken.
I also don’t use Twitter and haven’t for many years now. Even longer for Facebook.
While we on here makes it look like there are a ton of people who value their privacy on the internet, the general population by large isn't really aware how bad it is or have the know how to do something about it. The rest who do know don't really care that much.