They were the last to do this. Can’t even be mad about it.

I’m not a vegan, but equating the two seems a bit hyperbolic.

I’ve never heard this. I’m pretty sure the internet has decided otherwise.

As a vegan? The dog meal has eggs.

I’m 39. Stop scaring me.

Certainly hope you’re not getting the impression that I’m speaking in favor of China. I’m more in favor of equal outrage over invasions of privacy from all parties, foreign and domestic.

Every single month with my mortgage provider. Drives me nuts to be so mildly inconvenienced

I’d rather just not be spied on lol

We should be saying both are bad. We need much stronger, EU like privacy laws.

There’d be nothing for the top box.

See Montana

I, personally, do not want to be defederated from Threads. I want to follow some of the key news orgs and political figures who haven’t made the move over to Mastodon. For me, it can be the best of both worlds. I can get the content I want and maintain the level of privacy that I want.

This is where the Fediverse gets tested. Without a big corporate budget to bring extra servers online on a whim, balancing load during rushes is going to be difficult.

Then again, Reddit servers went down a lot and they’re big and corporate.

And it, thankfully, changed the trajectory of the entire industry. Phones were TERRIBLE before the competition picked up.