In the privacy section of the App Store it shows Threads basically collecting all data on your phone. So I guess standard Meta practice.
Surprised they didn’t list soul in the list of things collected
Why would I join a worse version of facebook?
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It’s tied to Instagram, and lots of people exchange instagram as a form of contact (which is weird already), so it’s already got huge potential once people find out about it. It’s very possible it supplants Twitter with how that’s going.
Perfect, another app I’ve been desperately waiting for to never ever use.
Another Service that will end up in the DSN blacklist…
Is this the federation killer?
Do you want to go from one corporate social media option to another corporate social media option? Then for you, maybe it is!
It uses ActivityPub, so it’s not gaining you anything over other options. I’m quite happy to never interact with them.
ActivityPub, so it’s not gaining you anything over other options.
Not quite. The usual next step for meta would be to enhance ActivityPub so there’s a better UX. Then it attracts more users and open ActivityPub will be a nieche thing again.
Whether Lemmy devs like it or not, they are in a competition with huge companies.
If we all just defederate with them upon arrival, it seems it stunts their ability to do that. Some users will go to their platform, sure - but if we don’t allow them to piggyback off of our content and engagement, effectively segregating their community away from ours, influence will be minimal, in theory.
Obviously some users will go to their platform, but really, that’s fine. We don’t need to interact with the entire internet.
anything to see twitter die
May they each take enough users from the other that neither is viable. And may the rest of us carry on independently.
