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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.
That's like getting picked up from Catholic Boys Choir by a white van with "Free Candy" spray painted on the side.
Not touching that, nope.
That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.
No, bye Zuck.
Fuck no. I need fewer Meta apps in my life, not more.
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.
Never. Just look what data they collect.
Lmao
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.
I hate to think that it might gain popularity with the Crowd trying to leave Twitter. I certainly don't plan on trying it. I have several friends that think Bluesky or Thread will be a good move after Twitter, but I can't see either option being good for the userbase long term.
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."
Nah, giving all my personal data to Meta for an account I’d hardly use doesn’t seem worth it.
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 @[email protected] 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!!!!!
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.
no definitely not installing it or opening an account.
I'm not against federation tho, I'd be in favour of showing people you can get all the same content through another channel. defederating means that people will have to use it if there's content from someone they like on there. I don't want to give people a reason to install that shit.
Hell no. Facebook got worse since they shoved every useless ads and recommended posts to your own face.
Never.
Lmao.
No.
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.
Nope. Meta's business practices are cancer.
I have a FB acct for work reasons, while I have no interest in Threads, there's no guarantee that I won't end up using Threads for work reasons.
I wouldn't join even if paid to do so.
I'd take the money and scram.
Big fat no from me. I don’t want to see ads in my sleep.
I made a promise to myself stay away from Facebook as much as possible. (Pretty hard to do here in SEA)
Twitter never made sense to me, so threads won't either.
I'm staying away from anything relating to Meta/Facebook
Absolutely not
I have 0 interest in giving any information to the Zucc
no
I don't plan to, ever.
Fuck everything that is facebook
