In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

  • scottywh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    1 year ago

    What I don’t understand is why people wound even want to use this app…

    What possible appeal could it have?

    • DrZaious@lemmy.worldEnglish
      192·
      1 year ago

      Using Threads knowing it’s a product of Zuck, is like voting for Trump in 2024 cause he wore a different style suit.

      • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
        181·
        1 year ago

        The best comparison I saw:

        Threads is Romney. Twitter is trump.

        Romney can come across as downright sane in a lot of situations. Yeah, he is a batshit loon and sometimes says stuff, but mostly he has “decorum”. Whereas trump/musk are 5 seconds away from masturbating on stage while screaming about hitler. But at the end of the day? They all vote the same.

      • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        You say that, but if he went out on stage in a pink sequins suit with assless chaps because it would somehow “own the libs”, a tragically high number of people would be all over that.

        • daanzel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          1 year ago

          Remember kids; assless chaps don’t exist, it’s just chaps. If they had asses, they’d be pants!

          • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Hey, if a bloke happened to be a waist-down amputee, I’d say he’s an assless chap. They can exist.

        • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          1 year ago

          The Proud Boys leader fucked a dildo to own the libs. So you’re not wrong.

          • ZodiacSF1969@lemmy.worldEnglish
            42·
            1 year ago

            Oh God I forgot about that lmao, what a fucking idiot. I wonder how many of his fellow Proud Boys tried it out too 🤣

      • WarmSoda@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        There’s a lot of dumpster divers out there, too. According to an AP article Threads “has drawn tens of millions of users since launching this week”.

        That’s nuts. And depressing.

    • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      “Okay so it’s basically Twitter, but with like… Facebook features…” Is literally a joke I have made about annoying app ideas people have when you tell them you’re a software developer.

      I have made this joke a few times, because it killed every time.

      I’m stunned. Out of material, and stunned.

      • RCKLSSBNDN@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Had a dude tell me he wanted to ‘disrupt’ social media by creating a LinkedIn alternative that allowed posting videos.

        He just needed a couple ‘techies’ like me to get it off the ground.

        Haven’t heard from him in a while. I hope rehab worked out for him.

      • The dogspaw @midwest.socialEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Your responsible for this you willed this evil into the world I cast you out to the sea and rocks below to you and your twitter with Facebook features

    • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      I’d guess you have to like Twitter in the first place to understand the appeal. Some people like it, some don’t, but the Twitter format has been pretty popular over the years, and this comes at at time when Elron has been making twitter dramatically worse for anyone who doesn’t share his political views. Meta gives the appeal as “having a platform that is sanely run, that they believe that they can trust and rely upon for distribution”. At this point, even if I thought Elron was a great guy I sure wouldn’t invest much in building my twitter account as the future of the site seems shaky. Also though, on the other hand, who knows if this will be a success for Meta and whether they’ll still support it 3 years from now.

      • scottywh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I do have a Twitter account but I almost never use it anymore because it has become such a cesspool…

        I just don’t think another copy of that cesspool run by a different asshole is likely to really be any more interesting than the original.

        • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I did have an account, until the API changes made Twitteriffic unusable and all the people I follow left. Then I started using Reddit.

          Now I use Mastodon and Lemmy. I will not go back to using a Social network that does not have; A) an open API which allows my choice of third party apps. B) a way to migrate my data and content.

          The exceptions are Apple Messages (for family and close friends), SMS (for family and close friends who do t have iPhones) and Facebook under a fake name, sandboxed in FireFox Focus.

    • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Brands almost instantly jumped over (likely due to a mix of instagram integration and a good deal on ads/boosting). Which is what the vast majority of twitter users cared about.

      Yeah, we all love Dril. And everyone loves all those hot memes. But the reality is that people want to know “the news”. No, not what is going on in Ukraine (I think journalists embraced Post months ago?) or the further erosion of civil rights in many western governments.

      No, the news people want is that Grimace is feeling sexay and Macky D’s has a new menu item. And that Netflix still wants you to watch Season 3 of The Witcher because even they know that show is fucked.

      So with brands jumping, that means many influencers also jumped. Because they need to embrace those brands for sponsorships. And then users follow the Green M&M and Pewdiepie’s streaming notifications and so forth.

    • Lee Duna@lemmy.nzEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Even if you don’t have Threads app installed. Meta is still a privacy threat for fediverse users. If there are fediverse instances that remain federated with Meta. And there are already millions of people who joined Threads in just a day.

      Ross Schulman, senior fellow for decentralization at digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that if Threads emerges as a massive player in the fediverse, there could be concerns about what he calls “social graph slurping." Meta will know who all of its users interact with and follow within Threads, and it will also be able to see who its users follow in the broader fediverse. And if Threads builds up anywhere near the reach of other Meta platforms, just this little slice of life would give the company a fairly expansive view of interactions beyond its borders.

      https://www.wired.com/story/meta-threads-privacy-decentralization/

    • TheSaneWriter@vlemmy.netEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’m not really sure, but then again I also didn’t really understand the point of Twitter, so I’m a bit biased.

        • ProfezzorDarke@feddit.deEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I always say: Almost like Reddit, but instead of following topics, you follow idiots

          Edit: I should add that reddit is now down the drain, that’s why I’m here now, lol. Federated Internet for the win!