In some of the music communities I'm in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They're all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match... Mark was right to call the people he's leaching off of fucking idiots.

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[–] esmazer 84 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even if you get them to care once you show them all they need to do to have a shred of privacy they shrug say something along the lines of "well I don't have anything to hide anyways" and go back to their merry way. The path of least resistance will always win sadly

[–] murphys_lawyer 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Literally saw a comment like that yesterday. Drives me up the wall. I'm in the process of accepting that the average Joe/Jane just doesn't care about anything but their little bubble. I used to spend so much emotional energy on trying to convince people to stand up for something greater or to at least think more than 2 meters ahead, but now I'm just done. I'll watch out for myself and the people close to me, everyone else can just evaporate for all I care.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congratulations, you now have your own little bubble.

[–] esmazer 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol true but teaching people better ways is like swimming against the tie. Heck is even hard with people close to me !

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I literally just had a friend tell me he joined Threads and how neat it was, etc etc and when I explained why I wouldn't be joining him, he basically just gave me the old "Well I already know they have all my information so it doesn't matter"

...like wtf? So you just...give up having any privacy whatsoever? I just couldn't respond to him after that, I don't really know how to respond to that. There's a disease spreading in the world unfortunately and it isn't just COVID. It's one called Apathy and too many people are coming down with it.

[–] BURN 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly he has a point. I was born right before Y2K. My entire life has been online. I’m sure with enough digging this account can be linked back to my IRL identity. They already have any and every bit of information about me, what’s a little more?

People don’t care and are never going to care. They can track us by anything already and don’t need you to give them any info. The algorithms that they use can identify you if you sign up or not.

It’s not apathy per se, it’s more resigned acceptance. There is no privacy anymore, even if you do everything in your power not to be tracked. Unless you live completely off the grid, cash transactions in places without security cameras only and no bank account/online accounts you’re going to be tracked by big tech.