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[-] PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world 132 points 1 year ago

They gave up all their personal data to see a crappy algo-driven social media site. Meta still considers this a win.

[-] master5o1@lemmy.nz 84 points 1 year ago

What new personal information did meta get from Instagram users enabling threads?

[-] saegiru@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

The real answer is nothing, assuming they already had an Instagram account. People are all up in arms, but the majority of 'signups' were just people clicking the activation button as opposed to creating a new account.

That said, I currently will praise anything that takes more users away from Twitter. Lesser of two evils and all that.

[-] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 40 points 1 year ago

Not that I disagree much, but... what a world we live in where Meta is the lesser of two evils...

[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Well, that’s enough internet for today, day drinking anyone?

[-] Doom_Cough@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Day dosing more like it.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

I’d argue Meta takes the cake just with Cambridge Analytica in terms of damage. Let alone all the other shit. But yeah, choose between ebola and the black plague…

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 1 year ago

Plus, Elon is more likely to run Twitter into the ground than Zuck is Meta, so that alone makes Meta the bigger threat.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I agree, it’s amazing. Musk has been such a dumbfuck that he has managed to make Mark Zuckerberg look good by comparison.

[-] Meltbox@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

As LTT said. Threads is the result of the Zuck flicking his tongue out and tasting blood.

But I mean we (society, not me, miss me with that) are still clearly subscribing to a social media site run by the lizard people and calling it an improvement.

Which says a lot.

[-] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You have to have blood to be a lizard. That man is as organic as my Playstation

[-] Bozicus@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And, unless your Playstation is broken, less fun.

...wait, scratch, that, even if your Playstation is broken, he's less fun.

[-] jdsquared@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Zuck is not a lesser evil. He's the same evil. And Jeffrey bezos this week is having a laugh because nobody's paying attention to him at the moment.

[-] AnotherPerson@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I'm going to assume not all new users were Instagram users.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure all new users are required to have an Instagram? I know for sure the two are linked. No deleting Threads without deleting your Insta.

[-] andrr_464@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Health history and fitness status

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Instagram doesn't already collect that?

[-] andrr_464@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] can@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

That surprises me. I assumed they took everything they could.

[-] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[-] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 4 points 1 year ago

I feel like what you're talking about is complaining about someone taking a dump on another, much larger pile of crap.

If you were already on Instagram that ship has sailed.

[-] moitoi@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

At least, they entertained me during a week or so.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They got nothing new. Just a few shitposts from Instagram users saying “I’m on Threads.”

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