The platform’s parent company has gotten into several knots before about mishandling sensitive information
  • deweydecibel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    581·
    1 year ago

    Too late, at this point. Mastodon was never going to be the mainstream replacement, at least not anytime soon. Bluesky honestly took too long. Had it opened up first, people would have poured into it. But once they’re settled in Threads, that’s where they’ll stay.

    It is profoundly depressing to watch Musk crumble only for the internet to flock mindlessly back to Mark fucking Zuckerberg. Just when I was hopeful we might break away from these established giants…

    • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
      281·
      1 year ago

      There was a post yesterday on Bluesky making fun of Google+ that got relatively high on the “What’s Hot” feed. People were really trying to dunk on G+.

      The big irony to me is Bsky — like G+ — has been sitting on invite-only for far too long, and it, too, may slowly fade away just like Google+ because of it.

      Your exclusive club probably won’t be the next big thing if it stays an exclusive club.

    • Saneless@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      1 year ago

      I’m curious to see the overlap between Twitter and Threads users. like how many on Threads never used a twitter-like service before

        • Ado@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I don’t think we’ll ever get away from these weirdos. I think that even if some ‘independent’, small company twitter clone became popular, Zuck would just buy it up. He bought Instagram, Elon bought Twitter, etc etc.

          It’s probably inevitable that these wealthy goobers will end up controlling whatever social media is popular.

    • aebrer@kbin.social
      6·
      1 year ago

      While I agree it sucks remember it’s not over til it’s over! They want us to feel despair, it helps their plans the less we resist.

  • cerevant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    1 year ago

    Users aren’t going to care about privacy until there are consequences. Given tendencies in red states in the US, I expect some people to be arrested based on social media data - not “here’s a post of me breaking the law” kind of data, but “you browsed this site while posting this comment after seeing your doctor last Tuesday which is a strong indication you were trying to cause a miscarriage” kind of data.

    • simple@lemmy.mywire.xyzEnglish
      91·
      1 year ago

      Even then, I doubt some people will be able to correlate that to privacy infringing social media services. Some will, but a lot probably won’t.

  • Swuden@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Is it actually thriving? I haven’t downloaded it or made an account to check so I wouldn’t know, but I would’ve thought I’d have seen the content referenced from other places if this was the case… So far I think I’ve seen one Thread screenshotted and linked and it was Zuck’s demo one or something…

  • shadycomposer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Well if you care about privacy, avoid all Meta products. Otherwise go ahead and use them. I thought it would be simple.

    • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s not simple when the entire society in the country is using those damn apps. It’s not simple when 99% use only thrtne service and can’t even send email or sms from their phones because why should they; everyone uses whatsapp. Well, everyone except you so maybe you’re the problem and not Le Zuck?

      Crowds are dangerously stupid. And one guy yelling that the emperor has no clothes on - he’s getting laughed at.