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.
Definitely not. I didn’t come to the Fediverse to be under social media companies again.
Almost same take here - but I also understand that there may be some people which would use/try it for whatever reasons.
I made a promise to myself stay away from Facebook as much as possible. (Pretty hard to do here in SEA)
Can’t even install it. (Apple) App store said it’s unavailable in my country. Fortunately. I hope it’s not just the app which is unavailable.
The amount of data collected is so insane that it won’t come out in the EU for now. And I like it that way.
It doesn’t have to come to EU to get this data though, all it has to do is start federating. I’m really curious how is that all going to work out, legally speaking.
Not totally true, the real value is combining data from different sources, but since the data they get wont have your email /ip/device/contacts etc it will be a lot harder to harvest usefully for advertising. Maybe they will figure out things to use it, but what they can use is already quite public, so they don’t really need to federatie for that
I stay the fuck away from anything Meta/Facebook, so absolutely not.
I don’t know anything about the number of users they’re expecting to have with this, but I’ll be very surprised if it’s a significant number. I just don’t get why anyone would want to join it, not only for what it is, but also for the whole facebook/meta nonsense. But I suppose some folks still actively and frequently use Facebook, so what do I know!
