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Meta confirms it is blocking EU-based users from accessing Threads via VPN (techcrunch.com)
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[–] lightsecond@programming.dev 88 points 2 years ago (16 children)

It’s been out for less than ten days and it already has more than 35x the number of total users as Mastodon. It might not be for us, but saying that no one would want to use it is just sour grapes.

[–] 47_Alpha_Tango@lemmy.world 25 points 2 years ago (6 children)

It’s the volume of person data it scoops up. I don’t understand why anyone would happily share that much information just to use a social media app.

[–] Kolrami@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. The average person doesn't know. I bet your parents don't check the privacy policy when they download an app.
  2. The average person might not care. We live in an era where lots of people would literally put listening devices in their houses.
  3. If you're already on Twitter, a decent amount of your data was already being shared anyways.
  4. Most people go to different social media platforms because (paradoxically) people are on those platforms.
  5. A decent amount of people might just dislike Musk because he calls people pedophiles for... helping kids or cucks for... making competing software??? So they'd rather give money to the next billionaire available.

This link has a decent comparison of a lot of social media sites' privacy policies.

[–] 47_Alpha_Tango@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

For point one my parents don’t even bother to read error messages. They just close them then phone me and complain the computer is broken.

I also don’t use Twitter and haven’t for many years now. Even longer for Facebook.

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