Meta have some of the absolute worst data harvesting practices. They’re awful. They’re also highly intolerant of many communities that found a home on Twitter.

 

It would be nice if we could get old tumblr back

Weeeell, we now have Threads!

There's a very good reason I have minimal interaction with the Meta group and only maintain accounts there for essential use. They aren't fun places to spend time. I haven't tried it yet but Threads looks... like Twitter but worse because it's so connected to Instagram right now.

 

main thing I'm hoping is that it gives Musk a kick up the arse to stop doing all this user-hostile stuff he's kept doing. With him stepping back as CEO which was supposed to be happening around now but we've gone for sabotaging ones own app with rate limits (seemingly a very poor cover story for the fact that they nearly majorly broke the app a few days ago) instead.

 

Sigh. I really don't want Threads to become the next Twitter but the early adoption rate (including verified brands and celebrities) suggests otherwise.

 

How long will it take for Meta to plague the app with ads, Reels and terrible feeds filled with people you don't follow nor have any interest in?

It already has the same feed algorithm as Instagram. And the same content rules as meta platforms (Nazis are ok, and racially abusing a footballer is why Instagram even has DMs but is that a pubic hair I see???? Ban)

 

 

The problem at the moment is that it’s not available in any of the EU countries. That’s a not insignificant chunk of the userbase who can’t even access it because the data harvesting/sharing practices are so egregious that they’re illegal under the DMA

I don't actually post on Twitter (and probably not a habit I want to get into) but read it often and probably would do the same with Threads. If Meta does actually moderate against hate speech and bans Far Right accounts and it gets a high level of engagement of prominent people, then I'd be happy for it to succeed and Twitter fail as right now the latter is like posting on Fox News forums say. I take the point re: too much power going to a single company but that's a lesser evil IMO.

This is good for me. I got unjustly banned from twitter for indirectly referring to the former Home Secretary with a rude word (when apparently all the unchecked racism, homophobia, transphobia etc. which is so rife on there is completely fine :rolleyes:)

 

Might give me an opportunity to reconnect with those I lost on there!

Owen Jones has now joined Threads so that's the deal sealed for me! As agree with 99% of his views.... :kiss:

I prefer Threads and don't seem to have a similar experience of Twitter than some - horribly cliquey, rampant transphobia/hateful views being put out and horrendous hot takes for clout.

 

Threads feels like what Twitter once was, a great sense of community and speaking to people outside of your circle.

I mean I'm not comfortable with Meta having more power, but Twitter has really got to the point where Musk has literally made it the least user-friendly or balanced it could be, an alternative could well go the same way, but if it's popular and makes a point to silence hate rather than encourage it then that's a positive at least.

Think I've read that they've already removed restrictions on Twitter lmao!

 

This is going to be fun.

 

But I really like Threads atm, sure it seems a little "bare" atm but with time it could quite easily become somewhere I could go to.

I'll stick to twitter. f*** Meta

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Edited September 7, 20231 yr by Mark.

I've never used twitter tbh, or instagram. Might try a thread.

in non-shocking news it appears that over half of elons followers have been found to be fake accounts

Musk has just unbanned both Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkin's accounts. Expect both to become mainstream very soon.

 

Musk has just unbanned both Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkin's accounts. Expect both to become mainstream very soon.

Why am I not surprised. :rolleyes:

 

Proof if ever needed that he wants fascism to be the norm.

Just in time for Tommy Robinson (not his real name) to organise a Far Right protest on Twitter to counter the Free Palestine marches on Saturday. Bet Bravermann is egging on the violence so she can take away even more protesters rights.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023...ing-advertisers

 

He's losing it, and going full fash!!! The company is now trying to make it sound like small and medium advertisers are who they havr wanted all along, and trying to make it sound like it's a yuuge opportunity to lose the big advertisers :lol:

 

 

X (Twitter) is banned in Brazil