The real question will be how many actually stick around. It’s pretty trivial to make an account and poke around: it’s a different thing entirely to stick around as an active user.
I believe that’s a bit of a misleading meme that’s making the rounds. You can deactivate it, which is functionally the same, and they haven’t yet rolled out the feature to delete it because they rushed this thing to market to take advantage of Twitter’s dumpster fire.
I also might be slow here, but I struggle to understand why this is a big deal. There are countless reasons why I would have reservations with Meta, but aww shit I can only deactivate not delete the Threads account associated with my source Instagram account seems like a weirdly esoteric hill to die on.
That’s 70m people oblivious (or cognitively dissonant) to Meta’s very well documented past transgressions and abuse and exploitation of people’s data. That’s really and truly a shame. The neoliberals are just going to move from one platform to another.
That’s 70m people oblivious (or cognitively dissonant) to Meta’s very well documented past transgressions and abuse and exploitation of people’s data.
It’s probably mainly people that are already on Twitter and/or Facebook so they’re not really giving up anything new. To be honest, at this point I’d probably be more willing to trust Zuck with data. At least robots are relatively predictable, Musk seems unhinged.
The neoliberals are just going to move from one platform to another.
Apparently, lemmy.ml already blocked Threads before Threads started using ActivityPub.
Personally speaking, I don’t like it if administrators start deciding for all users on their server what they can and cannot see (although they obviously have the right to do so).
If I want to follow a community or user in Threads, why should an administrator of a Lemmy server be able to prevent me from doing that? It also sounds rather silly, as it’s terribly easy to create multiple accounts on various Lemmy servers and read Threads posts that way.
I’m not registered on this instance, so your comment is completely wrong. It’s also a personal attack, but you don’t even know me.
As soon as an administrator starts deciding I cannot access Threads, I obviously will move if I want to see Threads posts.
I’m quite dumbstruck however by the large amount of people that think an administrator should block a server like Threads even before they have started using ActivityPub.
My understanding is federating with busy instances increases the resources used by that lemmy server. So it’s makes sense to me that an admin blocks whatever they like. This isn’t a paid service, admins are funding this themselves or via very limited donations.
I’m not on lemmy.ml, but from what I’ve read, the majority of users there are dead set against any large corporation looking to encroach on the Fediverse. The mods seem to be following the will of the people.
I just don’t understand why people would want a timeline they don’t control.
The few minutes I spent checking out Threads just felt like I was being subjected to the advertisement and braaaaaanding version of the Ludovico Technique
It seemed very clear that the entire experience was set up to manipulate you into seeing what they want you to see rather than what you want to curate for yourself.
I really don’t have an interest in that sort of manipulation…
Let him break Elon’s market lock, we’re probably too techy to do it ourselves. Once the market is split between the two of them, it reduces the core value of twitter, which partly depends on population.
That creates a better opportunity for us, it’ll be easier to pull from two smaller services than one larger one. Let’s just make sure we don’t get lost and forgotten, so keep talking about our “new idea” from time to time. Places asides here. irl is ideal.
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