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Given that Threads requires an app, and the app requires obscene permissions (health, etc) ... its hard not to think that Meta can't escape their set ways and this app is doomed to fail. The app serves Meta more than it does the public.
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By your logic, is Instagram a failure too? Its just those same permissions.
Instagram doesn't require an app. But I get your point, I doubt people really care.
Instagram was app-only for years, though. It added the web version a long time later
So you have to access via a device which will leak enough information that you will be easily identifiable by the platform and those that the platform gives or is forced to give access to.
Surely that makes the platform dead for the world to safely discuss anything vaguely controversial ( ie anything that matters )?
I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…
> "I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked." This is just some growing pains as Elon Musk is working on improving it. This is why he is so visionary, the ones before him didn't dare to go through challenges such as this one, so it shows why they needed him to step in and be the adult in the room.
I say this as someone who loves twitter: it's cooked. I spent time on threads earlier today and it is the answer people have been looking for. Nobody has a better track record of giving the users the features they want, even if that means cloning them wholesale from competitors. And more importantly, nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta. If you're a public figure and can get the same/larger enga…
> Right now my For You tab is filled with content I wouldn't have dreamed of a year or two ago, fight videos, videos of people dying, race war, gender war, you name it. Elon is egging it on, it's a complete mess. Censoring the aforementioned topics does not make them go away, time has shown that. And Megacorps controlling the public Overton window has just lead to society boiling and rumbling in the dark.
Perhaps, but not censoring those topics makes the user go away. Most people are simply not interested in wading into the constant mudfight that current twitter seems to have devolved into, so if the platform makes it impossible to evade those topics on the platform itself then the user will evade the platform altogether. A similar thing can be said for advertisers, if a platform cannot guarantee that a companies ads will not be shown next to hate content then the advertiser will eventually just start evading the platform altogether.
Unless I've missed it - there is no website. So you have to access via a device which will leak enough information that you will be easily identifiable by the platform and those that the platform gives or is forced to give access to. Surely that makes the platform dead for the world to safely discuss anything vaguely controversial ( ie anything that matters )?
https://www.threads.net/ does not (yet) show anything useful though.
Seems like it might be starting to fall over, trying to load https://www.threads.net/@zuck times out.
Given that Threads requires an app, and the app requires obscene permissions (health, etc) ... its hard not to think that Meta can't escape their set ways and this app is doomed to fail. The app serves Meta more than it does the public.
I believe you're misunderstanding the privacy labels. They're not permissions. Installing the app grants Meta no additional access for collecting e.g. health data. What it's saying is merely that if they already have it, they might use that data in this app.
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Are you implying Linda Yaccarino is a weirdo? Oh wait, the chip on your shoulder is so big you can't even differentiate opinions anymore.
Come on, no weirdo-shaming. Elon was a cool weirdo before we found out he was also a racist prick.