Technology

Why even ask that question on Lemmy

Nope. I have a barely-used Instagram account from before the sale to Facebook. I keep it in hopes that, someday, a regulator will force them to sell IG or spin it off. I have zero interest in having anything else to do with Facebook or any of its subsidiaries.

Lmao

I think the idea of it is pretty smart, Instagram probably has a lot of shared users with Twitter. If the quality of Twitter decreases then Instagram making a competitor seems like an easy win, especially if the issues plaguing Twitter aren't plaguing Instagram. The privacy concerns due to required permissions are probably the most concerning, but if you were using Twitter and Instagram you're probably not even considering that.

I'm definitely not going to try it, but I kinda hope Twitter completely busts at this point. Elon's next autobiography is going to be, "The Art of the Deal 2: How I won by losing $44 Billion."

Not touching that, nope.

That's gonna be a no from me, dawg.

Fuck no. I need fewer Meta apps in my life, not more.

No, bye Zuck.

I hate to think that it might gain popularity with the Crowd trying to leave Twitter. I certainly don't plan on trying it. I have several friends that think Bluesky or Thread will be a good move after Twitter, but I can't see either option being good for the userbase long term.

Yes! BUTTTTT I have a master plan!!!

HERE ME OUT!

I'm on Instagram and have a bunch of followers, around 200K.

SO - My plan is to squat as the IG users pick up Threads. Most people will just follow the same people from IG (Meta encourages it and it fills your feed fast).

My follower count on Threads should grow just from that alone, right?

THEN - Facebook finally federates, right?

THEN! Facebook allows for account migration to Mastodon.

First..... I migrate my @[email protected] account to Threads.

Finally.... Immediately migrate all my followers from Threads back to mstdn.social.

Suddenly potentially 200K are following a Mastodon account!!! MWUH-HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!

Never.

I don't know why you'd switch from the clusterfuck that is Twitter to anything made by Meta, one of the worst tech companies out there. It's like trading a turd for a piece of shit.
Mastodon is the only reasonable alternative IMO, the only problem is that not enough people are on there.

Nope. I haven't logged in to Fuckerbergs's shit over the last 2 years, not about to start now

Nah, don't want meta to collect even more data about me than before.

Hell no. Facebook got worse since they shoved every useless ads and recommended posts to your own face.

Nope. Meta's business practices are cancer.

Meta is just Facebook trying to hide their awful reputation under a new name. I will never call them Meta.

I'll be damned if I'm going to use any more of their spy products than I have to, too.

Nah, giving all my personal data to Meta for an account I’d hardly use doesn’t seem worth it.

I have a FB acct for work reasons, while I have no interest in Threads, there's no guarantee that I won't end up using Threads for work reasons.

Lmao.

No.

Never. Just look what data they collect.

I made a promise to myself stay away from Facebook as much as possible. (Pretty hard to do here in SEA)

Twitter never made sense to me, so threads won't either.

no definitely not installing it or opening an account.

I'm not against federation tho, I'd be in favour of showing people you can get all the same content through another channel. defederating means that people will have to use it if there's content from someone they like on there. I don't want to give people a reason to install that shit.

Will I use it? Absolutely not.

Do I hope that it gets used by others? Yeah, at least a bit. Because if Meta assigns more engineers to work on fedi tech like improving ActivityPub that would be a huge win for the fediverse in general. That assumes they actually contribute to open source, but Meta/FB actually has a reasonable track record there.

Big fat no from me. I don’t want to see ads in my sleep.

Absolutely not

After reading another post where it was shown all the private information the app requires, I’ll never even be close to it (a quick resume: location, device information, user profiles on other apps, payment information, even health information).

Edit: found a link (it’s a meme, but the screenshot shows what i’m referring to): https://lemm.ee/post/653305

Literally the first time I am hearing about this now.

I hate FB but I think I hate Elon even more, so if Thread kills off Twitter that would be great.

But I have my doubts.

Everyone already hates all the bullshit that FB does and flying under the Meta banner changes nothing. The tech/young/hip demographics needed to get a platform going seem to be distancing themselves away from FB as being an "uncool" company.

Meta has alienated so many people that they are going to have a hard time breeaking into new product categories because people just don't want to use their products unless essentially forced to. Look at their VR headsets. From a hardware perspective they really are quite good, but so many stupid, stupid policy decisions (such as needing a FB account originally) that folks rather do without than deal with them.

i hear the people who created meth made a new drug. might try it for fun/curiosity...

I am on Instagram which quite frankly is more than enough for me, thank you.

The content is very generic, a lot of people trying to subtly beg for followers, but the worst part is there is no following feed at all, just one (poorly so far) curated page.

I'm staying away from anything relating to Meta/Facebook