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.
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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.
This would be great but most people will not care and sacrifice data for convinence. Wish the government cared as much about us big tech as they did TikTok.
Is there a way to see recent popular posts? That’s like the only thing missing for me.
No, mastodon is for following people or specific communities… it is specifically NOT for listening to or speaking to the whole world.
Not that you’ve said that, it makes perfect sense for me why mastodon is the way it is.
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.
We are the marketing campaign.
installs app
Declines everything
"To use the app You need to allow-"
Uninstalls app
Did you do that, or just speculating?
"Instagram owner" just say Meta lol
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 😅
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.
They gave up on the metaverse already so I don't think that name fits anymore.
Did they? They just recently launched 2 new products.
I would love to use it as a conduit to drag those I love out of the Facebook/Instagram microcosms.
Adam Mosseri appears to be embracing the idea of Open Federation for Threads; https://www.threads.net/t/CuRtcYTNY3J
“ If you’re wondering why this matters, here’s a reason: you may one day end up leaving Threads, or, hopefully not, end up de-platformed. If that ever happens, you should be able to take your audience with you to another server. Being open can enable that.”
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)
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.
And people will join on there and it will have more success than better alternatives probably, at least for now. It's mindblowing how little people care/understand.
And it's not even like Meta offers any good service, FB has been crap forever.
I think most of the world has bought into the marketing lies of big tech, where they claim to be secure and private. Caring for their users. I was one of those people, until one day I asked a simple question, "what are these companies doing to actually protect me?" Nothing. rather I have made myself more vulnerable by being on a platform that uses my information at scale. They are doing everything to protect themselves from law suits and to keep racking in money over decades old dream of marketing based on large amount of personal data gathering. Ad money is drying up this year, high interest rate and all that. I wonder what impact that will have on these platforms.
Looks to me that Zuck is trying to compete with Truth Social -- no way this garbage will be Federated.
Is this the alleged decentralized/federated Twitter app that Facebook has been working on?
Yup, but it's not even integrated with ActivityPub yet
I read that it wouldn't be federated to begin with. Which is weird, because then it's just another silo...
I really liked that show, Silo. I think I’m gonna read the books
Yeah I've really enjoyed it too. Cliffhangers every episode
Am I hallucinating or didn't they have an app called Threads already? and it was a snapchat UI clone bolted on top of instagram backend?
Yep you're right, and they shut it down: https://techcrunch.com/2021/11/17/instagram-will-shut-down-its-companion-app-threads-by-year-end/
twitter alternative, is mastodon, everything else is companies trying to cache with fediverse
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?
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
As of Twitter doesn't collect your data...
Just no.
All social media are same lol
I don't know if it this new service will be able to read posts from Lemmy or not, but I've already blocked this monstrosity just in case.
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