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Are you going to try Meta's Threads? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by edu4rdshl@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I’m not going to install or create an account in threads, howver, I will be quite non-discriminatory to thread users when they become federated.

I personally hope that Instagram users start to use Threads instead.

Adam Mosseri claims that they are not going to try to prevent Thread users from churning to other instances.

https://www.threads.net/t/CuRtcYTNY3J

Whether they follow through with their commitments is yet to be determined.

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Only if they pay me ;)

[–] trouser_mouse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I went on Threads and it is really, really fucking stupid. Five stars.

[–] phillycodehound@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am. I'm a digital marketer by trade. Gotta try everything. Am I going to stick with it? Who knows!

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[–] DrQuint@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This is going to be popular in places that are already deep on the Facebook ecosystem, such as India. But I really hope it doesn't everywhere else.

[–] gon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don't really care so, no.

[–] VirtualAlias@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'll try it. I don't really care about data privacy very much and neither do a lot of other people until the data receiver is someone they dislike.

How much data is Reddit, Tumblr, Uber, Snapchat, WhatsApp, AirBnB or any other app getting? Who cares as long as I don't hate their CEO.

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[–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I won't but I also cannot, because EU and stuff...

[–] emptyother@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I said I would never join facebook. Or msn messenger. Or Discord. Or Twitch. Or Twitter. But then everyone and their grandmas started using them. And despite knowing already back then they would use me as the product, I hesitantly joined.

So if they manage to release an EU-legal version, and everyone-ish joins, and mastodon becomes barren, I might join. Again. Its not like they dont know everything about me already.

The cynic in me have realized most people jumps on whatever is advertised to them and is cheap, and call anything that isnt advertised enough or too expensive for "difficult" or "looks stupid". Those who claims ads doesn't work on them are extra prone to jump on anything commercial while downtalking better and free'er options. So we can't win this way.

[–] SojournerWeaver@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was curious how it compared to Mastodon. It didn't.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Never. Fuck Meta. Fuck Zuckerberg.

[–] jeffrufino@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

I'm already on there

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