And nothing of value was lost.

Good! Stay out of the EU with your data-stealing apps! 🇪🇺

Oh no! Anyways…

Imagine being sad about this 🤣

Meta can duck right off. Nobody needs them in the EU

Would be nice if they'd stop their other services here too.

Thank you, EU 🫶

Did nobody here read the article? This is sensationalized as hell lol. They aren't blocking the app, it just hasn't gone through GDPR approval. They rushed the launch to beat Twitter to a usable product, but it will definitely be released in the EU after they figure all that out.

I remember whenever DPC fined Meta the first couple of times around for the WhatsApp stuff, they threatened to leave the EU if they couldn't get what they wanted (Harvest user data). Meta honestly thinks that they are above GDPR and Data Protection Acts. But they are not. And the fines that the DPC has imposed should show that.

It would be better for everyone if they left the EU.

The EU does some nice stuff, please ban the other apps and services from meta next.

Very glad we have such a strong governing body in the EU. Not everything they do is perfect, but they are actually taking a stand against mega corps and protecting our rights.

We are really moving toward the Asian style super-apps…

I'm so glad. I hope it will stay this way. Fuck méta.

Brexit dividend! /s

Btw here is a post of all the Data Collection labels the app has in the Apple App Store. Oh what a surprise , it has quite a few.

I hope it doesn’t launch in Australia

I'm really happy about EU having RGPD, Twitter is not the best (even more with Musk) but Meta is like, evil.

If Threads decides to be open for federation with non-Meta instances (which is a huge if, although everybody seems to assume it), maybe this decision might lead to European "normies" joining Mastodon instances just to interact with Threads users.

I'm sad for the people on the other side of the pond :(

Wouldn’t normally be a problem and it is not a problem at all since it will be ActivityPub compatible.

As Trump would say: "This is very cool and very legal." Except it's not.