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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by edu4rdshl to c/technology
 

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.

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[–] [email protected] 190 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The amount of data collected is so insane that it won't come out in the EU for now. And I like it that way.

[–] edu4rdshl 32 points 1 year ago

Now these are news for me, thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yup. Not going to be available so it’s an easy decision for now

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't have to come to EU to get this data though, all it has to do is start federating. I'm really curious how is that all going to work out, legally speaking.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Not totally true, the real value is combining data from different sources, but since the data they get wont have your email /ip/device/contacts etc it will be a lot harder to harvest usefully for advertising. Maybe they will figure out things to use it, but what they can use is already quite public, so they don't really need to federatie for that