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[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I’m actually shocked by the growth of threads, I underestimated how much people don’t care about their digital privacy.

[–] ShakeThatYam 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You are using a social network on some random dude's server.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

That is very true, but I have a little more trust in this random dude’s server where he gets access to what? He sees my IP address? Than a corp that collects an unnecessary amount of user info for the sole purpose of keeping you locked into their apps with little disregard for health. While also pimping your info out to any persons with $2 to their name.

[–] ashok36 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any random person is at least a hundred times more ethical than mark Zuckerberg.

[–] emperorbenguin 0 points 1 year ago

You overestimate the ethics of random human beings.

Atleast zuck is beholden to pretend to be ethical.

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

tbf, that's every social network isn't it?

[–] dustojnikhummer 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I wouldn't take on hosting a public instance, especially in EU, as it comes with all sorts of legal shite

[–] woelkchen 39 points 1 year ago

Those are existing Instagram accounts.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

What they don’t know will hurt them, sadly.

[–] guyman 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bro. It's a public forum. What 'digital privacy' are you talking about?

[–] hackitfast 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This digital privacy.

Threads for iOS

Liftoff for Lemmy

People don't understand what they're doing literally signing away their data and accepting these Terms of Service.

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

These people are already on instagram. Now they're just giving their data to Facebook twice.

[–] straF 0 points 1 year ago

Which is why we should federate. People have the choice to use a low availability “private” server hosted by amateurs on lemmy or use something secure and distributed that works 100%.

A little warning: the site owners on lemmy could be doing many malicious things. The simplest is the ability to drop trackers in the sites header section. However they could have dns based trackers that are invisible to end users. And thats just tracking so far. The only reason we know facebook is a slime bag is years and years of leaks.