Technology

Will I use it? Absolutely not.

Do I hope that it gets used by others? Yeah, at least a bit. Because if Meta assigns more engineers to work on fedi tech like improving ActivityPub that would be a huge win for the fediverse in general. That assumes they actually contribute to open source, but Meta/FB actually has a reasonable track record there.

Not touching that, nope.

Absolutely the fuck not. There's no room at the Inn for whores like me on Meta apps ¯\(ツ)/¯

I was permanently banned from Instagram a few months ago because I'm a pornstar. A lot of industry folks were banned around the same time. In retrospect, I wonder if they were trying to clean up the app ahead of the launch of Threads.

I had experienced temporary bans before over the years, we all had. But losing my account and then having my new account banned again within two days, all without posting anything even approaching NSFW was fucking awful. It really hurt a lot of us financially.

So fuck no, I'm not going to spend my time creating content and IP, posting photos, and engaging with my fans on their new platform. I doubt I could join it anyway.

I hate to think that it might gain popularity with the Crowd trying to leave Twitter. I certainly don't plan on trying it. I have several friends that think Bluesky or Thread will be a good move after Twitter, but I can't see either option being good for the userbase long term.

Nah, I'm good

Never. Just look what data they collect.

I can't see any reason for me to ever try it. I've got plenty of social media to deal with already, and this doesn't seem to be offering anything new or interesting for me. Plus the creepy permissions even keep me away from joining temporarily out of any curiosity I might have.

Nah, don't want meta to collect even more data about me than before.

Never.

I don't know why you'd switch from the clusterfuck that is Twitter to anything made by Meta, one of the worst tech companies out there. It's like trading a turd for a piece of shit.
Mastodon is the only reasonable alternative IMO, the only problem is that not enough people are on there.

We need to let meta die slowly, so no.

Nope. I haven't logged in to Fuckerbergs's shit over the last 2 years, not about to start now

no definitely not installing it or opening an account.

I'm not against federation tho, I'd be in favour of showing people you can get all the same content through another channel. defederating means that people will have to use it if there's content from someone they like on there. I don't want to give people a reason to install that shit.

Lmao

Lmao.

No.

I made a promise to myself stay away from Facebook as much as possible. (Pretty hard to do here in SEA)

no

I have a FB acct for work reasons, while I have no interest in Threads, there's no guarantee that I won't end up using Threads for work reasons.

Twitter never made sense to me, so threads won't either.

Nope. Meta's business practices are cancer.

Big fat no from me. I don’t want to see ads in my sleep.

I have 0 interest in giving any information to the Zucc

Hell no. Facebook got worse since they shoved every useless ads and recommended posts to your own face.

Nah, giving all my personal data to Meta for an account I’d hardly use doesn’t seem worth it.

I think the idea of it is pretty smart, Instagram probably has a lot of shared users with Twitter. If the quality of Twitter decreases then Instagram making a competitor seems like an easy win, especially if the issues plaguing Twitter aren't plaguing Instagram. The privacy concerns due to required permissions are probably the most concerning, but if you were using Twitter and Instagram you're probably not even considering that.

I'm definitely not going to try it, but I kinda hope Twitter completely busts at this point. Elon's next autobiography is going to be, "The Art of the Deal 2: How I won by losing $44 Billion."

Yes! BUTTTTT I have a master plan!!!

HERE ME OUT!

I'm on Instagram and have a bunch of followers, around 200K.

SO - My plan is to squat as the IG users pick up Threads. Most people will just follow the same people from IG (Meta encourages it and it fills your feed fast).

My follower count on Threads should grow just from that alone, right?

THEN - Facebook finally federates, right?

THEN! Facebook allows for account migration to Mastodon.

First..... I migrate my @renwillis@mstdn.social account to Threads.

Finally.... Immediately migrate all my followers from Threads back to mstdn.social.

Suddenly potentially 200K are following a Mastodon account!!! MWUH-HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!

Meta is just Facebook trying to hide their awful reputation under a new name. I will never call them Meta.

I'll be damned if I'm going to use any more of their spy products than I have to, too.

I'm staying away from anything relating to Meta/Facebook

I wouldn't join even if paid to do so.

I'd take the money and scram.

No, bye Zuck.

After reading another post where it was shown all the private information the app requires, I’ll never even be close to it (a quick resume: location, device information, user profiles on other apps, payment information, even health information).

Edit: found a link (it’s a meme, but the screenshot shows what i’m referring to): https://lemm.ee/post/653305

Hell no

I am on Instagram which quite frankly is more than enough for me, thank you.

No. Never.

The content is very generic, a lot of people trying to subtly beg for followers, but the worst part is there is no following feed at all, just one (poorly so far) curated page.

No. I have no interest in a Facebook product.