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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Definitely not. I didn’t come to the Fediverse to be under social media companies again.
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.
Now these are news for me, thanks for the info.
Yup. Not going to be available so it’s an easy decision for now
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
My brother in Christ, you’re asking people on Lemmy if they’re going to try meta spyware
Nah, fuck that and fuck them
Exactly
People on Twitter are already trying it because Twitter has been shit.
Someone in my circle created their account and already deleted it. Their explanation was a FAQ screenshot for Threads saying that it doesn’t matter who you follow or who follows you, the algorithm will show or hide things from you based on what they think you will enjoy and there’s no way around it and you also can’t sort by new.
I mean, are companies really paying attention to user needs? Lol
I’ve stopped using LinkedIn because it keeps defaulting to Relevant instead of Recent, and Relevant apparently means posts from 2 weeks ago. But at least there you can manually set it to Recent every time.
A social medium where sorting by Recent is impossible will be a no-go.
My current issue with LinkedIn is that they’re trying so hard to force me to use their app on mobile.
The latest way is that they’re no longer allowing you to do the “easy apply” from mobile without their app.
I don’t want the damn app though. There’s no good reason to lock features that work fine on a desktop browser away from mobile users unless they install the app.
I mean, are companies really paying attention to user needs? Lol
I often wonder if these are the result of some middle-manager just doing things to justify their job. Like website redesigns most of the time feel like someone needed to justify their job. It’s almost always worse than the old design. How can you take what you had and then “improve” it by making it worse?
I mean, are companies really paying attention to user needs? Lol
Look, the user needs to see stuff that keeps them engaged. That keeps them coming back for more. Algos are designed to achieve exactly that. Your self chosen bubble of followings and interests may not be optimized for engagement and addiction.
No, the companies don’t pay attention to user needs, they pay attention to the bottom line.
I stay the fuck away from anything Meta/Facebook, so absolutely not.
No! - I’m not a dumbfuck. Mark Zuckerberg once said people who trust him with their personal information are dumbfucks. I have never had an account on any of his platforms, and never will. If something I’m using integrated with his products I’d just stop using it. Just no!
Unfortunately, we’re kind of stuck with WhatsApp where I live but I Signal with the willing.
Otherwise, I avoid Facebook products like the plague.
Everything I don’t like about twitter combined with everything I don’t like about Facebook? hard pass.
No.
Just seeing the list of privacy data collected is enough to make me baulk. I barely ever use Facebook or Twitter as is, I’m not touching that shit with a 10ft pole.
I think Carrot said it best…
Lol. Carrot is always on point.
What is this?
It’s an iOS/iPadOS weather app: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/carrot-weather-alerts-radar/id961390574
I wouldn’t try meta’s anything.
I wouldn’t try a meta fire extinguisher if I was on fire.
It would first take all your clothes and then read your mind. Then it will make you accept COokies and figure out your height, weight, gender, friends and family. After all that it will finally work but it extuingishes the wrong fire
Lol wtf no
absolutely fucking not.
I think we need to cut them the fuck off here. It’s obvious Meta sees the Fediverse and Mastedon as a competing threat to its communication ecosystem and wants to EEE ths shit out of ActivityPub
Hard pass. I’m shit tired of being advertised to and packaged as a product at the same time
