All public content on the web is heavily surveillanced through crawling bots by Google and alike.
Memes
Rules:
- Be civil and nice.
- Try not to excessively repost, as a rule of thumb, wait at least 2 months to do it if you have to.
I'm less concerned about my public facing profile (I intended it to be public after all), more worried about them fingerprinting my browser and correlating it to my personal life and personal browsing, and then selling that entire dataset. It would be really hard for Lemmy to do that, really easy for Facebook.
An alternative to Twitter with an Instagram flavor.
They ended up going back to Twitter lol
I should try Mastodon
Good luck. Hope you like it. I never really used Twitter because I felt like it was hard to figure out how to use it to see interesting stuff in your feed. Then I tried Mastodon and had about the same experience. Not sure how it is now, but I tried a few months ago (maybe January or something) and there wasn't a ton of activity so it was stale after a few wks using it and I gave it up.
I've like Lemmy a lot better but I think that's because I always liked Reddit better.
ikr! Like I'm so confused like, just get on mastodon and don't deal with threads like ??????????
A lot of people use social media to follow celebrities, brands, politicians, etc., and Mastodon doesn’t have that (yet at least).
I prefer Mastodon, my feed consists of the people I decided to follow, instead of an algorithmic one. But one have to accept that Mastodon lacks the kind of users that most people want to follow.
Hopefully, if Meta ends up delivering on their promise to add support for the Fediverse, I will be able to follow the kind of people that otherwise would’ve never joined Mastodon (ie brands that would offer support for their products), from my Mastodon client of choice.
I know a lot of people disagree with Meta joining the Fediverse, but I prefer to be optimistic about it. Also, Mastodon supports blocking domains at a user level, so if you really don’t want to interact with @threads.net users, you can do it yourself.
Worst case scenario, we get back to the current status quo, so there’s nothing to lose.
The biggest L is watching porn artists try to move to Threads when the platform doesn't even allow their content.
I love mastadon, I hope threads burns down to the ground. I am not a big fan of THE ZUCKMAN
But I don't WANT control over what I see online, I need to have a constant feed of garbage thrown in my face at all times!
Lol, I got hyped about Threads until I saw who runs it... meta... yeah no thanks!
How is twitter still alive? I have been wondering it since 2013 when i stopped using it
Are threads federated?
Not yet, but they’ve said it will be. Personally I’m excited to see “mainstream” social media using ActivityPub, but you’ll find that it’s quite a divisive issue.
Threads is federated afaik, yeah. It's just that many Fediverse instanced blocked Meta.
They haven't federated yet but they say they will eventually. I'm going to change instances to ones that don't want to join them if/when it happens.