This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
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I find it weird that no one is linking it. I literally had to find it on APKMirror.
no
Fuck no.
I still don't know what this threads thing even is, aside from being bootleg Twitter...
I boycott all the products of big corporations as much as possible. I'm not even slightly tempted to try Threads.
I dunno if I'd use the app itself, but I am hopeful it gets traction among "normal" people because I miss following my friends on Mastodon. Threads seems to be the best way to get average non-techy people to accept the fediverse.
Now, I don't trust Meta at all. But I hope I can at least follow my friends' Threads from Mastodon or here on Kbin.
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'm still waiting for Blue Sky, but at this point its either Mastodon or something else (like Threads) because Blue Sky just seems to be taking an eternity. Something is going to replace Twitter and at this point I just don't know what it will be.
I’m interested to see how Threads connects with other social media platforms (like Mastodon), but I’m not using an app with such an invasive privacy policy.
Depends on how many of those data slurping categories I can disable on iPhone. I would at least like to try it.
Only if I can burn them
Too much data collection for my tastes. That and Facebook have shown. That they don't know how to maintain a healthy and engaging community. It would just become another doom scroll rather than anything interesting. But I'll watch what happens.
Not until they add some basic features and we get some answers on the data collection.
It doesn't even offer a reverse chronological list of posts with only people you follow. That is basic, day 1 level functionality for me.
I don't think I'll use it in any serious way. I left Facebook years ago now. I have an Instagram but never use it. I'm just not a user of Meta's products. But I'll reserve my handle and if Twitter itself finally craps the bed at least I'll have one more off ramp.
