I’m mainly avoiding it because it’s dumb
That. I never understood the usefullness of twitter anyway so i won’t find Threads usefull either
It’s because you don’t idolize celebrities and other famous figures enough to know what they do daily.
There were a lot more people on Twitter than pop culture celebrities.
In pretty much any field you can think of, some of its leading figures would be on there. Economics, urbanism, tech, astronomy, game developers, journalists, fan communities of essentially any creative work, communities for marginalized identities, pretty much any interest was well-represented there.
Garbage in, garbage out. I use(d) Twitter to follow a bunch of high profile Machine Learning and Software Engineering professionals, and my (non algorithmic) feed was rather useful and informative.
It was great for artists and scientists. My twitter feed was mainly filled with paleoartists and paleontologists bickering about the fullness of t rex lips and I sorely miss it.
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You’d probably be happier on hacker news then mate, enjoy. https://news.ycombinator.com/
Did we really need a YouTube video to explain why one shouldn’t use meta products?
I really don’t get this trend of turning everything into a video. Is it supposed to be easier to consume?
I would much rather read an article and get the information I want at the pace I want.
Videos get more money per impression
Imagine using a product by Facebook. The same company which sold millions of its user data to ad company without their user knowledge. 🤡
I mean, the fact that it’s made by Meta should be a good enough reason. I’m avoiding Meta like the plague. Fucking sucks that I need Facebook Messenger for school group chats though.
Twitter was always trash. Why would I want to use a halfassed knockoff version from an exponentially worse company?
Elron somehow made Twitter so bad that fake Zuckbook Twitter looks good by comparison.
Honestly! I don’t think a lot of people care about privacy.
Honestly if you’re using Lemmy all this information is already publicly accessible, any public forum isnt privacy friendly
Sure, the information we post here is public, but you can remain anonymous if you want.
I’m not talking about the public stuff, because that’s not where the money is for Meta. Here is the stuff the Thread app collects
Now juxtapose that with what the Lemmy app collects.
Sorry misunderstood your comment, yeah Threads/Meta is god awful for collecting data wouldn’t want to touch them personally
There definitely is money in it for Meta though, just yesterday there was quite a popular post showing the types of data that is available to both users and instance owners. If one wanted to they could use things such as your upvotes and down votes to build a sort of profile about you, your political affiliations, interests etc
Meta isn’t just a problem, ad companies can easily set up an instance to start collecting data from other servers
I’m avoiding it because I have Meta’s entire network blocked at my router. 😄
