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Are you going to try Meta's Threads? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Will people here use/try Meta's #threads when available? Would love to know the reasons or if it would be just for fun/curiosity.

The amount of data collected is insane imo.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

No.

  • As you pointed out way too many data permissions
  • While I'm not in the "everything for-profit companies does is inherently evil" camp, Meta has done some sketchy stuff.
  • It's mostly microblogging from what I can tell, and that's best in smaller instances or instances heavily moderated / filtered to feel that way which Threads likely won't be
  • It's name, even though it won't really be mixed threads like the name implies, will mess up momentum for the Threadiverse to mean AP actual threaded apps, and terms are hard.
  • I'm sure their TOS, privacy policies, or moderation policies aren't going to be any better than other Meta apps.

That being said, I do like:

  • They are planning to federate via AP unlike Bluesky
  • Meta is trying new things other than VR.
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They are planning to federate via AP unlike Bluesky

We know that they are using ActivityPub. Afaik, we don't know if they are planning to federate with non-Meta instances (or with instances vetted by Meta). It is entirely possible that they use ActivityPub only to federate their own instances and ignore anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed 💯. Didn't know they were planning to federate.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well people say it's an attempt at the famous "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" from Microsoft.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Exactly, it looks like among other things this could be an attempt to destroy the Fediverse from within. I think it is a good idea for anybody involved in the Fediverse to read this article, which talks exactly about how this could happen: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html