Instagram’s Twitter competitor launches July 6th
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Meta’s next app will try to make Instagram the new Twitter

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.

  • NebLem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    No.

    • As you pointed out way too many data permissions
    • While I’m not in the “everything for-profit companies does is inherently evil” camp, Meta has done some sketchy stuff.
    • It’s mostly microblogging from what I can tell, and that’s best in smaller instances or instances heavily moderated / filtered to feel that way which Threads likely won’t be
    • It’s name, even though it won’t really be mixed threads like the name implies, will mess up momentum for the Threadiverse to mean AP actual threaded apps, and terms are hard.
    • I’m sure their TOS, privacy policies, or moderation policies aren’t going to be any better than other Meta apps.

    That being said, I do like:

    • They are planning to federate via AP unlike Bluesky
    • Meta is trying new things other than VR.
    • jorge@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      They are planning to federate via AP unlike Bluesky

      We know that they are using ActivityPub. Afaik, we don’t know if they are planning to federate with non-Meta instances (or with instances vetted by Meta). It is entirely possible that they use ActivityPub only to federate their own instances and ignore anyone else.