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In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."

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[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (10 children)

What I don't understand is why people wound even want to use this app...

What possible appeal could it have?

[–] DrZaious@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Using Threads knowing it's a product of Zuck, is like voting for Trump in 2024 cause he wore a different style suit.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You say that, but if he went out on stage in a pink sequins suit with assless chaps because it would somehow "own the libs", a tragically high number of people would be all over that.

[–] daanzel@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember kids; assless chaps don't exist, it's just chaps. If they had asses, they'd be pants!

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hey, if a bloke happened to be a waist-down amputee, I'd say he's an assless chap. They can exist.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Proud Boys leader fucked a dildo to own the libs. So you're not wrong.

[–] ZodiacSF1969@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh God I forgot about that lmao, what a fucking idiot. I wonder how many of his fellow Proud Boys tried it out too 🤣

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Bro, put one up mine too! Come on man we gotta own them!

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you are already eating out of a dumpster, even the worst fast food looks appetizing.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a lot of dumpster divers out there, too. According to an AP article Threads "has drawn tens of millions of users since launching this week".

That's nuts. And depressing.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

They probably funneled them in with an ad from Instagram.

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

"Okay so it's basically Twitter, but with like... Facebook features..." Is literally a joke I have made about annoying app ideas people have when you tell them you're a software developer.

I have made this joke a few times, because it killed every time.

I'm stunned. Out of material, and stunned.

[–] RCKLSSBNDN@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Had a dude tell me he wanted to 'disrupt' social media by creating a LinkedIn alternative that allowed posting videos.

He just needed a couple 'techies' like me to get it off the ground.

Haven't heard from him in a while. I hope rehab worked out for him.

[–] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your responsible for this you willed this evil into the world I cast you out to the sea and rocks below to you and your twitter with Facebook features

[–] feck_it@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd guess you have to like Twitter in the first place to understand the appeal. Some people like it, some don't, but the Twitter format has been pretty popular over the years, and this comes at at time when Elron has been making twitter dramatically worse for anyone who doesn't share his political views. Meta gives the appeal as "having a platform that is sanely run, that they believe that they can trust and rely upon for distribution". At this point, even if I thought Elron was a great guy I sure wouldn't invest much in building my twitter account as the future of the site seems shaky. Also though, on the other hand, who knows if this will be a success for Meta and whether they'll still support it 3 years from now.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do have a Twitter account but I almost never use it anymore because it has become such a cesspool...

I just don't think another copy of that cesspool run by a different asshole is likely to really be any more interesting than the original.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did have an account, until the API changes made Twitteriffic unusable and all the people I follow left. Then I started using Reddit.

Now I use Mastodon and Lemmy. I will not go back to using a Social network that does not have; A) an open API which allows my choice of third party apps. B) a way to migrate my data and content.

The exceptions are Apple Messages (for family and close friends), SMS (for family and close friends who do t have iPhones) and Facebook under a fake name, sandboxed in FireFox Focus.

[–] scottywh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

We all have our exception (s)

[–] sneezy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

the sad truth seems to be that vast majority of people just don't care about the threats.

[–] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even if you don't have Threads app installed. Meta is still a privacy threat for fediverse users. If there are fediverse instances that remain federated with Meta. And there are already millions of people who joined Threads in just a day.

Ross Schulman, senior fellow for decentralization at digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that if Threads emerges as a massive player in the fediverse, there could be concerns about what he calls “social graph slurping." Meta will know who all of its users interact with and follow within Threads, and it will also be able to see who its users follow in the broader fediverse. And if Threads builds up anywhere near the reach of other Meta platforms, just this little slice of life would give the company a fairly expansive view of interactions beyond its borders.

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-threads-privacy-decentralization/

[–] thesanewriter@vlemmy.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not really sure, but then again I also didn't really understand the point of Twitter, so I'm a bit biased.

[–] MathiasTCK@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Latest news, with spirited discussion attached

[–] ProfezzorDarke@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I always say: Almost like Reddit, but instead of following topics, you follow idiots

Edit: I should add that reddit is now down the drain, that's why I'm here now, lol. Federated Internet for the win!

[–] Yoz@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a percentage of people who are fucking weird bro.

[–] tegs_terry@feddit.uk -1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, about 9 out of 10.