This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
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.
I hang onto Instagram begrudgingly, definitely won't be trying anything new from Meta.
I will definitely be installing it whenever it comes to Android out of curiosity if not anything else.
No
Have never had a Facebook account. Have never had an Instagram account. No, I'm not about to sign up to Threads.
I do have WhatsApp, it's the main messaging app that everyone I know uses, so I don't have much choice.
All the people I know that use Facebook are old(er) people. Not looking forward to old people twitter 😅
I dunno if I'd use the app itself, but I am hopeful it gets traction among "normal" people because I miss following my friends on Mastodon. Threads seems to be the best way to get average non-techy people to accept the fediverse.
Now, I don't trust Meta at all. But I hope I can at least follow my friends' Threads from Mastodon or here on Kbin.
Only reason I would consider threads is to post the anti fedi pact and make it harder for them to succeed with turning our safe haven into their corporate dystopia.
No, I don't think I'll try '6'
lol no
Nope. As it will just end like reddit or meta. And i dont want anything to do with that
Once hashtags (& maybe trends) get added, we will get a honeymoon phase, before it all gets bloated TF. Give it a few months and we will have Threads Stories, THCAST for long-form audio/podcasts (with AI transcription), e-commerce Thread Shops...
Only if I can burn them
This is going to be popular in places that are already deep on the Facebook ecosystem, such as India. But I really hope it doesn't everywhere else.
i don't use twitter anyway, so my plan is to enjoy this virtual boxing match between musk and zuckerberg until they actually follow through on their real punchup.
I am on kbin.social. I worry that if kbin doesn't defederate from Threads, maybe kbin's servers will be flooded with Threads data (i am not techy, so maybe this would be a minor issue). Also, if someone in the Fediverse but outside of Threads starts communicating with someone who has a Threads account, will the non-Threads person now have all of their data that's now on Threads servers collected?
If I understand correctly, your content on the fediverse is already public (DM’s, posts, etc.). So that data is already collectable. What Threads / Meta can’t get is the rest of the info above in the original post, and tie that to you.
Hell no.
I’m still on IG so I’ll have an account by default I guess. I may take a peek to see how they implemented it, but it’s hard to imagine staying.
Fuck no.
I don't use Twitter, don't see a reason to use a FB variant of it.
I think I'm a bit of an outlier here, because I tried it (I already had an IG account) - but the bombardment of influencer-types, big-name brands, and having zero-control over my feed gave me more than enough reasons to leave for good.
Hell no, I'll be avoiding it like the plague, just like the rest of facecuck's services.
Zero interest whatsoever. The only way i'd see them is when people post their shit elsewhere and it's worth seeing.
I only ever visited twitter to see content posted by people that was cross shared elsewhere. I have zero interest in utilizing platforms similar to it and would prefer something in the same style as reddit because it allows for everything - self sites with selfposting, interest based sites where you talk about similar topics, and also generalist sites.
I just can't help it when local news happens and it's linked to a sub and the source is what it is.
Considering I'm already an Instagram user and I would like this platform better than Instagram, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't make the trade
A friend of mine tried and said that it's basically banning anything lol
