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Why would anyone voluntarily use it anyway?
It’s been out for less than ten days and it already has more than 35x the number of total users as Mastodon. It might not be for us, but saying that no one would want to use it is just sour grapes.
It’s the volume of person data it scoops up. I don’t understand why anyone would happily share that much information just to use a social media app.
While we on here makes it look like there are a ton of people who value their privacy on the internet, the general population by large isn’t really aware how bad it is or have the know how to do something about it. The rest who do know don’t really care that much.
- The average person doesn’t know. I bet your parents don’t check the privacy policy when they download an app.
- The average person might not care. We live in an era where lots of people would literally put listening devices in their houses.
- If you’re already on Twitter, a decent amount of your data was already being shared anyways.
- Most people go to different social media platforms because (paradoxically) people are on those platforms.
- A decent amount of people might just dislike Musk because he calls people pedophiles for… helping kids or cucks for… making competing software??? So they’d rather give money to the next billionaire available.
This link has a decent comparison of a lot of social media sites’ privacy policies.
For point one my parents don’t even bother to read error messages. They just close them then phone me and complain the computer is broken.
I also don’t use Twitter and haven’t for many years now. Even longer for Facebook.
I’ve pretty quickly concluded that sour grapes are in no short supply here.
That so many people genuinely cannot fathom the concept that many people actually like social media - and may even be aware of the privacy cost and find it acceptable - really speaks more about how out-of-touch a lot of people here are than anything else.
It seems like a more extreme version of the weird elitism around social media that was always present on Reddit.
Because everyone else is there, that’s how it works. People don’t give a rat’s ass about privacy, they just want to be where their friends are.
The same type of people who uses tik tok
You underestimate how many people don’t give a fuck about their privacy.
Why shouldn’t it? They are interested in personal data, not some fabricated online personalities.
Let it be the perfect counterargument to every moron who says “I’m not that important”. Yes, you are. If you weren’t, the Big Tech wouldn’t go to such length to acquire all the data about you, they can put their sweaty palms on.
You are human, and therefore data. Anything helps them train AI and use you for marketing data.
I’m not saying it shouldn’t, but that IMO, nothing of value was lost.
Which has to mean that they’re blocking everyone from accessing Threads via VPN, since they can’t tell where the real source is beyond the VPN exit server.
Authoritarian regimes like China do this, too, unsuccessfully.
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Double Jump VPN activate
Fools, we at Meta always know were you are. Our trackers are more powerful than your VPNs.
I’m on it in Testfight, it’s interesting for like 3 days, now it’s already dying down.
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Of course they are blocking VPNs, but using one to access Meta is more effort than it’s worth.
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