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Honestly, it's scary. For people that are unaware, there's an amazing resource on privacy-respecting alternatives to popular services and softwares: https://www.privacyguides.org. They are also on Lemmy if you have any question.
Mastodon is already pretty active, and is also part of the fediverse
The unfortunate reality is that unlike us, most of the Twitter users could not care less about making choices, let alone privacy. Twitfaces can't calm down and talk without going ballistic and you think they'll willingly look into what federated social media is?
Alot of them are moving though thanks to twitter repeatedly fucking up, I've been seeing some artists and such on mastodon recently that were only on twitter before.
People just need to spread the word; there isn't a marketing campaign or anything for the fediverse after all.
Mastodon is the federated equivalent of twitter the same way lemmy can be considered the federated alternative of reddit. That's the nice Twitter alternative you are looking for.
This is what I've been telling everyone. Don't go to threads, go to mastodon.
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"Instagram owner" just say Meta lol
We all know it's the Zucc, you don't gotta lie of omission to kick it.
installs app
Declines everything
"To use the app You need to allow-"
Uninstalls app
Facebook makes a product that squeezes every last drop from your privacy? Nooooooo waaaay!
Ahem. They're called Meta.
But seriously, fuck anything Zuckerberg owns.
I don't care what they all themselves, they are always going to be Facebook.
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This post is Meta.
On a serious note, can we appreciate Meta's marketing team for the timing of this announcement. They waited for Twitter to bleed to kick it in the shins.
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Why the first reaction frame? Instagram is owned by Meta, of course they're going to have incredibly invasive data collection policies.
I expected some data collection but to be honest, have not expected as much (especially location etc., although this can be partly deactivated). But maybe I was too trusting in this case 😅
you lost me at "Instagram"
That's impossible, Instagram already knows your gps coordinates...
Great, another Meta privacy brea... I mean service I can stay away from.
No no, you were right the first time
Yeah.. Meta the owner of Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp wants to collect data from you? Shocker
Mastodon is a viable option, but then again, this app does some basic automatic account creation from existing FB data and follow people from it. This alone will impress some non-tech journalist and praise it. We have become too lazy to get out of the burning house and save our life.
I wonder if any of that break some GPDR or California Data laws.
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This is so egregiously excessive that Threads can't launch in the EU (https://m.independent.ie/business/technology/no-instagram-threads-app-in-the-eu-irish-dpc-says-metas-new-twitter-rival-wont-be-launched-here/a1927220337.html)
Is anyone really supprised?
twitter alternative, is mastodon, everything else is companies trying to cache with fediverse
Just no.
Yeah I don’t get why they need all these permissions. Crazy
Because they want it. It's the main reason why they've built the app.
for targeted ads I guess
Looks to me that Zuck is trying to compete with Truth Social -- no way this garbage will be Federated.
At least we have all the fediverse micro-blogging section
And here!
Is this the alleged decentralized/federated Twitter app that Facebook has been working on?
The ONLY good thing about the existence of Threads is that I'll finally be able to follow people from Instagram without actually having to use Instagram. Otherwise it's the largest honeypot of the entire Fediverse
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Even tho the meme is using "disappointed black guy", I wouldn't be surprised or disappointed actually.
It's meta, what else can someone expect from them?
My big hope from this is that people might learn more about federated content and the fediverse in general. Then they can move away from stuff meta makes into the actual private internet.
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As of Twitter doesn't collect your data...
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