EmoDuckTwitter users right now
AlexmitterLiterally this, or the Web3 BS Bluesky.
roonWhat’s wrong with Bluesky? 🤔
Last I heard their invite only platform already had a Nazi problem.
Isn’t that going to be a problem with any type of federated site?
yes, but if your platform is invite only and already has a nazi problem I dont see that as a “good look.” Its not like the nazis can go to a public sign up page in that case, someone had to invite a nazi.
Not sure why you’re making things up. Anyone to the right of Bernie Sanders gets mass blocked and bullied off the platform.
ok I’ll take your word for it, not like I plan on using the twitter guy’s second twitter either way.
What the hell is Bluesky?
samus12345Please tell us why it had to hide away for so long (so long)?
👽🍻👽The guy that is one of the main creators of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, made Bluesky. It’s a Twitter alternative that I believe is still invite only. It’s funny, when Bluesky officially started allowing people to use it, Twitter was abuzz with excitement and people posting memes about begging for access. Those select few that did get in early were going on and on about how awesome it is and how it was like old Twitter.
Then Threads drops without the invite barrier automatically adding everyone with an Instagram account and I haven’t heard a fuckin peep about Bluesky in weeks.
Threads got rid of the invite barrier so hard they already created an account for everyone and even thier friends thatve never used it.
It's founder circle is fully made by Web3 Crypto Scam people.
Bluesky is at least federated, no?
Using their own new protocol that no one else uses and they probably don’t even implement themselves yet.
ripe_bananaThe only thing I liked about bluesky was that i could use my domain as my handle…seemed cool.
It’s crazy how many people will just click accept on security warning them that an app will access literally everything on their phone.
It’s also crazy how many people don’t even know that Threads is Meta… where the f have these people been for the past 10 years?
0x4E4FLiving with influencers in their feeds.
itsAsinugh. influencers are the worst. old man grumble
ryan213[ shaking fist at clouds ]
BlueLineBaeI’ve never cared for influencers, but they also never effected me personally. Until last summer… I was blueberry picking one morning with my mom. We picked 3 very full buckets and called it a day and headed for the checkout hut. We’re hot sweaty and tired and just wanted to checkout and go home, but we were suddenly blocked in the middle of a row of blueberries with no way to get out! Why? Because someone was photographing a lady in a sundress and hat caressing the blueberry bushes. We ended up walking through the photo and I’ve never felt such “get off my lawn” sentiment before.
caressing the blueberry bushes
oh my lord. lolz
jelloeater85I just wonder what they are all going to be doing for a living in 15 years…
Lol for real though, ruining an influencer’s shot - or even better, a live broadcast - when they’re being an obnoxious asshole gives me no small degree of pleasure.
When my wife and I got a chance to go to musee d’orsey in Paris there was a beautiful manual clock on show. There was this annoying influencer standing about 15 ft in front of it and not letting anybody get closer. She would constantly whine that they were in her shot.
I walked right up to the mechanisms of the clock to inspect it while she just yapped at me and my wife laughed and laughed and laughed.
Best experience in Paris by far.
Lmao that honestly sounds delightful! Hope you guys enjoyed the rest of your trip too!
Tangentially, did you get a chance to catch a performance of the string quartet that plays in Sainte-Chapelle cathedral? If you’re at all into that style of music, it’s one of the coolest experiences I have seen like that, and I cannot recommend it enough. The cathedral itself is gorgeous, the acoustics are absolutely breathtaking, and the quartet is like crazy talented. Can’t recommend that enough.
We sadly did not get to take that in. But the second chapter of the story is how two canadians visiting paris brought covid to basel switzerland, and caused a whole company campus to close. All while ending up trapped in .ch for ten months with only two suitcases…
But that chapter is for another post.
Oh wow… that sounds like it would have been murderously expensive…
It ruined us, financially. But the story is ours forever.
*Affected
where the f have these people been for the past 10 years?
They’ve been giving away their data for all that time and it hasn’t visible affected them negatively.
Of course it will eventually and they’ll Pikachu face then but that’s hardly comforting.
Will it? Why? It won’t affect most people personally ever, hence why most people don’t really care.
I fear you are right. While I do believe that further policital abuse of that data is inevitable (Trump or the Malaysian civil war were at least partial results of campaigns of Cambridge Analytica, for example), people probably won’t see the impact data analysis had and how they’ve been manipulated.
I think security warnings are kind of like cancer warnings in the state of California. If virtually everything causes cancer then warnings become just a normalized part of life.
It’s just another form of notification fatigue.
What it comes down to is that you never get a choice. Over and over again, it’s always sign this 10,000 word EULA written by our lawyers to give us all the rights, now, and any rights we want to have in the future, or you can throw that $800 device in the trash if you don’t click yes. Likewise, if you want to participate in modern socialization, sign or fuck off.
There’s no point in reading the EULA, because it’s not like you can negotiate for better terms. If you do read it, you just get to find out how it screws you in detail. It’s always take it or leave it, and somehow they paid the devil to make sure that this is popular with everyone else, so you walk through our gate on our terms, or you get shut out of everything, everywhere.
It doesn’t even matter if you’re smart enough to wade through the agreement, it’s still take it or leave it, and the dummies don’t even try. They know the deal, they click the button. The smart people click it, too, they just feel worse about it. Take it or leave it. Fatigue isn’t the right word. Coercion. That’s the one.
Having any leverage in consumer transactions is becoming a rapidly fading memory. Everyone has just given up. Remember when you could buy a TV without signing an onerous legal document that a rational person would never sign, in order to use it? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
★ 𝐑𝐮𝐢𝐤𝐤𝐚𝐚𝐏𝐫𝐮𝐬 ★EULA sucks when these companies touch him
How do you know that people don’t know that Threads is Meta?
You expect a lot from vegetables.
Don’t forget the amount of data you’ll be sharing, including health records
Seriously question, how do they get access to your health data?
SpicyPeaSoupI'm guessing they record if you've been viewing a lot of, say, heartburn-related content, or once said "I suffer from heartburn".
ScrubblesI’m guessing there’s no direct place for it there without reading email ( but even then your doctor should not be emailing you directly without a layer of encryption).
Probably it’s more of a “hey if we stumble on it it’s ours now”. Like if you subscribe to a lot of parkinson’s info they probably can safely assume you or someone you know has Parkinson’s. And they’ll use that to shove ads in your face.
Can’t they read sensor data and infer certain conditions from that? For exampke if you have a limp or something?
It means data that has been recorded to your health app - steps per day/hour, sleep hours/analysis, heart rate readings if you have a watch or device that does that, estimated calories burned, etc.
Useful data for you to know and control, but incredibly creepy for a corporation like Meta to take for no reason other than to build an intrusive ad profile.
Ah gotcha, now I’m glad I haven’t set my phone up to monitor any of that
These are primarily the data stored by your health apps and sos information.
If you’ve Android health info stored for emergency cases, some apps with right permission can access it. You know to save your life.
Likewise, your health record on your health apps like Google/Apple/Samsung health store a lot of information about you like steps, sleep trends, heart rate, diabetes, water intake, and even period regularity.
In normal cases these records should only be known to you or shared with apps you approve.
Threads has no business normally to request these data, but if they want go serve you relevant ads, these become quite useful information.
They can show you sanitary products when you’re on period, or show ads for meds when you’ve high blood pressure. None of these should be monetised, but they can very well will be.
nebula42ikr! Like I’m so confused like, just get on mastodon and don’t deal with threads like ???
A lot of people use social media to follow celebrities, brands, politicians, etc., and Mastodon doesn’t have that (yet at least).
I prefer Mastodon, my feed consists of the people I decided to follow, instead of an algorithmic one. But one have to accept that Mastodon lacks the kind of users that most people want to follow.
Hopefully, if Meta ends up delivering on their promise to add support for the Fediverse, I will be able to follow the kind of people that otherwise would’ve never joined Mastodon (ie brands that would offer support for their products), from my Mastodon client of choice.
I know a lot of people disagree with Meta joining the Fediverse, but I prefer to be optimistic about it. Also, Mastodon supports blocking domains at a user level, so if you really don’t want to interact with @threads.net users, you can do it yourself.
Worst case scenario, we get back to the current status quo, so there’s nothing to lose.
joshuaacaseyMY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. I’m so glad to see someone else say this.
ArcheTelosThat’s pretty much why I’ve been reluctant to join either Mastodon or Threads, compared to Lemmy. On Reddit/Lemmy, it doesn’t really matter who I talk with, as long as a community exists for the topics I’m interested in. But on Twitter, I pretty much exclusively follow content creators and don’t care to interact with anyone else. Until those streamers/youtubers/artists jump ship, I’m pretty much stuck on Twitter with them. When they do, I can only hope they pick Mastodon over Threads, so I can actually filter my feed to those I choose to follow, but ultimately I gotta go where they are.
Metal Zealot Threads is the narcissism of Instgrammers and the psychopathy of Twitterers
Is it just me or does threads symbol look like no step on snek?
But I don’t WANT control over what I see online, I need to have a constant feed of garbage thrown in my face at all times!
Garbage that’s designed to alter my mood to keep me longer on the platform. Please, give me more of that!
RhabukoIt’s insane how much people actually unironically chill for Meta and Zuckerberg now because Elmo is mad. Fucking Zuckerberg…
I mean Zuck is atleast not batshit crazy like the Musketeer. Not like he won’t sell you out but atleast his platforms are stable.
The bar is actually really fucking low, but Musk with twitter just doesn’t make it.
Yeah, for some reason there will always be people who are willing to use software that harms them.
macnielIt’s shill. Like the shilling (old currency) which has nothing to do with being cool headed.