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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.
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.
My brother in Christ, you're asking people on Lemmy if they're going to try meta spyware
People on Twitter are already trying it because Twitter has been shit.
Someone in my circle created their account and already deleted it. Their explanation was a FAQ screenshot for Threads saying that it doesn't matter who you follow or who follows you, the algorithm will show or hide things from you based on what they think you will enjoy and there's no way around it and you also can't sort by new.
I mean, are companies really paying attention to user needs? Lol
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.
No! - I'm not a dumbfuck. Mark Zuckerberg once said people who trust him with their personal information are dumbfucks. I have never had an account on any of his platforms, and never will. If something I'm using integrated with his products I'd just stop using it. Just no!
No.
I wouldn't try meta's anything.
I wouldn't try a meta fire extinguisher if I was on fire.
Lol wtf no
We need to let meta die slowly, so no.
Everything I don't like about twitter combined with everything I don't like about Facebook? hard pass.
Nah. No need to as Mastodon and Lemmy exist, and I have no desire to give Meta data.
No
Nope. If I wanted something similar to twitter, I would use Mastodon, not Meta's privacy hell.
I can't see any reason for me to ever try it. I've got plenty of social media to deal with already, and this doesn't seem to be offering anything new or interesting for me. Plus the creepy permissions even keep me away from joining temporarily out of any curiosity I might have.
Just seeing the list of privacy data collected is enough to make me baulk. I barely ever use Facebook or Twitter as is, I'm not touching that shit with a 10ft pole.
Yes! BUTTTTT I have a master plan!!!
HERE ME OUT!
I'm on Instagram and have a bunch of followers, around 200K.
SO - My plan is to squat as the IG users pick up Threads. Most people will just follow the same people from IG (Meta encourages it and it fills your feed fast).
My follower count on Threads should grow just from that alone, right?
THEN - Facebook finally federates, right?
THEN! Facebook allows for account migration to Mastodon.
First..... I migrate my @renwillis@mstdn.social account to Threads.
Finally.... Immediately migrate all my followers from Threads back to mstdn.social.
Suddenly potentially 200K are following a Mastodon account!!! MWUH-HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!
Nah, I'm good
No, bye Zuck.
Not touching that, nope.
I think the idea of it is pretty smart, Instagram probably has a lot of shared users with Twitter. If the quality of Twitter decreases then Instagram making a competitor seems like an easy win, especially if the issues plaguing Twitter aren't plaguing Instagram. The privacy concerns due to required permissions are probably the most concerning, but if you were using Twitter and Instagram you're probably not even considering that.
I'm definitely not going to try it, but I kinda hope Twitter completely busts at this point. Elon's next autobiography is going to be, "The Art of the Deal 2: How I won by losing $44 Billion."
I don't know why you'd switch from the clusterfuck that is Twitter to anything made by Meta, one of the worst tech companies out there. It's like trading a turd for a piece of shit.
Mastodon is the only reasonable alternative IMO, the only problem is that not enough people are on there.
Hell no. Facebook got worse since they shoved every useless ads and recommended posts to your own face.
Absolutely the fuck not. There's no room at the Inn for whores like me on Meta apps ¯\(ツ)/¯
I was permanently banned from Instagram a few months ago because I'm a pornstar. A lot of industry folks were banned around the same time. In retrospect, I wonder if they were trying to clean up the app ahead of the launch of Threads.
I had experienced temporary bans before over the years, we all had. But losing my account and then having my new account banned again within two days, all without posting anything even approaching NSFW was fucking awful. It really hurt a lot of us financially.
So fuck no, I'm not going to spend my time creating content and IP, posting photos, and engaging with my fans on their new platform. I doubt I could join it anyway.
The puritanical standards of most social media and Apple especially are just pathetic.
Nope. I haven't logged in to Fuckerbergs's shit over the last 2 years, not about to start now
Nah, don't want meta to collect even more data about me than before.
Fuck no. I need fewer Meta apps in my life, not more.
Never.
Nope. Meta's business practices are cancer.
Absolutely not
Thanks to @m0bi13 who posted this breakdown for context :
Data collected by #threads:
Health & Fitness
Financial info
Contact info
User content
Browsing History
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Purchases
Location
Contacts
Search history
Identifiers
Sensitive Info
Other Data
Oh fuck no. The very first line is basically a HIPAA violation. It gets worse from there. We require less disclosure from Supreme Court Justices and Presidential nominees.
This is a trainwreck waiting to happen - even if Facebook itself doesn't abuse this level of power, you know that bad actors within the organization will. And once the information is collected, you know that tyrannical governments all over the world will be falling over themselves to get access to the data. This is a stalker's wetdream, an Orwellian orgasm of truly grotesque proportions.
Keep the Fediverse from Zucking. Just say no to Threads.
Meta is just Facebook trying to hide their awful reputation under a new name. I will never call them Meta.
I'll be damned if I'm going to use any more of their spy products than I have to, too.
Nein, danke.
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.
Of course not, what's the point? Fediverse (Mastodon, PixelFed, Lemmy) is fine and dandy for me!
The content is very generic, a lot of people trying to subtly beg for followers, but the worst part is there is no following feed at all, just one (poorly so far) curated page.
I tried it, as I'm looking forward to MORE people using the fediverse.
However, I do not like anything about the app.
Your Home feed is just random posts by people - all served up via algorithm based on what others have liked.
It's basically the shitty part of Twitter's "For You" feed, except that is the ENTIRE Threads app. No timeline for those you follow, no lists, no trending, etc.
I wouldn't join even if paid to do so.
I'd take the money and scram.
absolutely fucking not.
I think we need to cut them the fuck off here. It's obvious Meta sees the Fediverse and Mastedon as a competing threat to its communication ecosystem and wants to EEE ths shit out of ActivityPub
Installing their app is a good way to get all the entries in Contacts in your mobile sent to them.
The again, anybody who already installed their Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp apps has nothing to worry about as the deed is already done.
I honestly don't think that threads will ever be part of the fediverse they will use activitypub to connect Facebook threads and Instagram and nothing else people think that there joining the fediverse because there incorporating activitypub but I don't see it happening
No. I have no interest in a Facebook product.
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.
No?