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.
No. I have no interest in a Facebook product.
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I think Carrot said it best…
Lol. Carrot is always on point.
What is this?
It’s an iOS/iPadOS weather app: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/carrot-weather-alerts-radar/id961390574
No. I don't even have a facebook/meta/instagram account. fuck Zuck.
Hell no!
Nope.
I'm not interested in anything from Meta if I can help it
Are you going to try Facebook's threads FTFY
No webpage + only phone app interaction = NO, THANK YOU.
Nope. This company is on my blacklist and I won’t try anything they make.
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Nope
Nah, giving all my personal data to Meta for an account I’d hardly use doesn’t seem worth it.
I was all for "giving it a shot" just to see what the hub bub was about.
Other lemmings point out just how many permissions I have to give Meta. So, I've lost interest. Never was a big tweeter anyway.
Wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole.
I have 0 interest in giving any information to the Zucc
Will I use it? Absolutely not.
Do I hope that it gets used by others? Yeah, at least a bit. Because if Meta assigns more engineers to work on fedi tech like improving ActivityPub that would be a huge win for the fediverse in general. That assumes they actually contribute to open source, but Meta/FB actually has a reasonable track record there.
I’d agree, except for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
Seems more likely that they’ll end up harming the fediverse before they improve things for us.
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All the people I know that use Facebook are old(er) people. Not looking forward to old people twitter 😅
Hard pass. I’m shit tired of being advertised to and packaged as a product at the same time
We are all already there baby. JOIN THE CHAOS.
lol no. It's not even legal in the EU.
I'd try it out if they paid me for all my data with very detailed explanations of how it will be used.
In other words, no.
I don't really care so, no.
Thanks, I'm good. I don't even want to know what that is.
Once hashtags (& maybe trends) get added, we will get a honeymoon phase, before it all gets bloated TF. Give it a few months and we will have Threads Stories, THCAST for long-form audio/podcasts (with AI transcription), e-commerce Thread Shops...
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I have said this in a different thread but Mastodon will always have an adoption issue because the use for twitter is the ability to follow marginally known to famous people that you want to hear for whatever reason (for me sports, finance, tech stuff etc) and occasionally interact with them or even become a followed twitter person yourself. Mastodon may not reach critical mass on its own but being federated and connected with people that use a twitter like service from Meta will greatly open up the opportunity to use Mastodon like many would want to use Twitter.
The bigger issue will be how well the connection works and there is always going to be concern with how meta uses the data, but for me it does make mastodon more appealing...
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not a fucking chance
I'd rather chew glass
Hell no.
A friend of mine tried and said that it's basically banning anything lol
I would have more privacy waking naked in the street
Hell no, I'll be avoiding it like the plague, just like the rest of facecuck's services.
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.
Yikes no.
Let's see...
- I despise Facebook/Meta.
- I don't want to help Mark Zuckerberg get more money.
- I was never fond of Twitter, either - an interesting concept, poorly executed.
- If I did want a Twitter-ish post feed, there's Mastodon.
So no, I won't be trying out the Zuck's attempt to eat the Muskrat's lunch. Sounds like a gross spectacle no one asked for.