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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.
I'm staying away from anything relating to Meta/Facebook
No. Never.
Hell no
Fuck everything that is facebook
Of course not, what's the point? Fediverse (Mastodon, PixelFed, Lemmy) is fine and dandy for me!
Absolutely not.
Of course not, Only a drooling idiot would even consider it or anything else linked to that parent company.
I prefer to just sit back and watch it all burn down, as it deserves.
No!!?
Every instance owner should be looking to sign this. Every time you see Meta bullshit posted, please repost this. Also idk how to tag people and I know he's super busy as of late but calling on [email protected] to get on board with this as well. With the ever growing size of his community it is his responsibility to help us protect the Fediverse.
"i am an instance admin/mod on the fediverse. by signing this pact, i hereby agree to block any instances owned by meta should they pop up on the fediverse. project92 is a real and serious threat to the health and longevity of fedi and must be fought back against at every possible opportunity"
it's kinda weird to me that some people are ?excited? about it. it's Meta, it's the Zuck Suck. it's a twatter clone, and we all know how's that going after another rich twat took it over, and isn't it already full of the "crazies"? like to me, it has all the hallmarks of being just another soulless cash grab by another megacorp to take twatter's place, not that it's surprising. so it's a resounding no from me.
no
Hell no. I'd like to preserve my peace.
You'll need a facebook account, so no, probably not. Despite whatever security concerns there are for other platforms, I don't want to give Meta any more of my information than they've already stolen from me if I can help it.
I wouldn't join even if paid to do so.
I'd take the money and scram.
Installing their app is a good way to get all the entries in Contacts in your mobile sent to them.
The again, anybody who already installed their Facebook, Instagram or Whatsapp apps has nothing to worry about as the deed is already done.
I honestly don't think that threads will ever be part of the fediverse they will use activitypub to connect Facebook threads and Instagram and nothing else people think that there joining the fediverse because there incorporating activitypub but I don't see it happening
No. I'm 40. Its exhausting trying to give all my personal data away to all these different spaces now.
Time was, a man could give up all his personal data on just one platform. I would rest easy knowing that every goverment in the world had proof that I am not a terrorist, and every buisness knew how much porn I watched.
But now theres so many and I'm just one guy. I can't keep track of them all. It makes me feel too old for this world.
Don't use FB, don't use IG, won't use threads.
I use WhatsApp almost daily. Have accounts on Facebook and Instagram. Enough Meta services in my life.
No.
FUCK no.
No?
While I'm on the microblogging side of fedi I'm gonna be staying far away from Threads, I like that there's more attention on ActivityPub now, and they're free to make it if they want, but I just can't see myself using it really.
No.
No. I don't even have a facebook/meta/instagram account. fuck Zuck.
I have said this in a different thread but Mastodon will always have an adoption issue because the use for twitter is the ability to follow marginally known to famous people that you want to hear for whatever reason (for me sports, finance, tech stuff etc) and occasionally interact with them or even become a followed twitter person yourself. Mastodon may not reach critical mass on its own but being federated and connected with people that use a twitter like service from Meta will greatly open up the opportunity to use Mastodon like many would want to use Twitter.
The bigger issue will be how well the connection works and there is always going to be concern with how meta uses the data, but for me it does make mastodon more appealing...
Nope but I didn't use twitter either, nor will I use Mastodon. Just not my cup of tea as it is a vile place and you can clearly see in the last couple of twitter years why I was right on this one. Mastodon and Threads will suffer the same fate imho. This type of platform attracts....certain weird and extreme people.
Absolutely, yes. I almost always try the newest networks/apps because I like to see for myself whether I think they're going to be a hit and/or worthwhile.
No. I have no interest in a Facebook product.
Hell no!
Nope.
I'm not interested in anything from Meta if I can help it
Hell no
With all that data it’s collecting?
Negative.
I believe the phrase ""Oh FUCK no" has never been more appropriate.
Nein, danke.
Not released in EU. So can't ;(. Wait, that might be a good thing?
Too much data collection for my tastes. That and Facebook have shown. That they don't know how to maintain a healthy and engaging community. It would just become another doom scroll rather than anything interesting. But I'll watch what happens.
