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Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by ehnto »

Dirak wrote: post #306

This has already be debunked https://www.threads.net/t/CuXRXDdNOtH/ You can "deactivate" your account and delete all of your posts individually, which is effectively equivalent to deleting your Threads account.

Not to the EU, or Australian privacy laws either I suspect. You need to be able to request your data be removed entirely.

From a practical sense it isn't equivelant either, because if I want to reduce my risk of being affected by a Threads data breach, totally valid reason to delete an account you don't use, then my data would need to be removed entirely.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by 2muchcoffeeman »

cf141q5325 wrote: post #320
barbazoo wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a realistically reasonable thing to judge someone by?

I cant come up with an explanation why it wouldnt be. On the moral side, its clearly a no go to sell your friends stuff/data. On the practical side, its really hard to argue that you are not aware this is happening. Can you elaborate?

One of them probably installed WhatsApp and added everyone in their contacts to WhatsApp.

When these companies are actively trying to trick their users, can you really blame the users?

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by cf141q5325 »

2muchcoffeeman wrote: post #322
cf141q5325 wrote: post #320

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I cant come up with an explanation why it wouldnt be. On the moral side, its clearly a no go to sell your friends stuff/data. On the practical side, its really hard to argue that you are not aware this is happening. Can you elaborate?

One of them probably installed WhatsApp and added everyone in their contacts to WhatsApp. When these companies are actively trying to trick their users, can you really blame the users?

They still did not have to click that button. This isnt a get out of jail free card, intention only gets you so far. There is a reason stupidity doesnt protect against punishment. You are expected to pay attention when effecting on other people.

edit: This is a lot like getting signed up for some multilevel marketing scam by a friend. They better be really sorry and you better reevaluate the spare key you gave that stupid person with low self control. Which you should have realized earlier.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by carlossouza »

paxys wrote: post #204

From what I have seen so far Threads seems to have been an incredibly rushed and premature launch, done directly to counter Twitter's missteps from the last few weeks. And the decision is proving to be the absolute correct one. What I don't understand is why Bluesky didn't seize the opportunity first. People were literally banging on their doors begging to be let in and they continued to go "sorry we are exclusive, i…

Makes you wonder about Jack’s luck/skill ratio in Twitter launch.

After seeing Bluesky so far, it may be higher than what most thought…

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by imchillyb »

harry105 wrote: post #92
KSPAtlas wrote: post #25

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You're still giving users and money to Meta, which is probably gonna try use threads to do an EEE (embrace, extend, extinguish) on the Fediverse (Group of server software like Mastodon and Lemmy which are able to talk between each other, mastodon is probably the better twitter alternative, just try not to join the biggest instances and join a smaller one, experience is better)

True, I'm not sure if I'll stick with it, I just wanted to see what it was like. I used one of the apple hide-my-emails just in case I didn't want anything to do anything with it. From what I can see, threads doesn't use hashtags, which is a little confusing. I did give mastodon a go, but I found it confusing, when I make account is that for that specific instance? If I choose one instance, can I see things from a di…

> when I make account is that for that specific instance? If I choose one instance, can I see things from a different instance?

>> When you first create your account, you choose a server — similar to how you choose to open an email account on Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo or wherever — which generates your profile’s address. So, for example, if you sign up for Mastodon via the climate justice server, then your address will be @[your username]@climatejustice.social. But no matter which server you sign up with, you will be able to communicate with users from any other server, just like how Gmail users email Hotmail users and vice versa. However, some servers might have blocked other servers (perhaps if it’s an unsavory group), which would mean you can’t communicate with anyone from the blocked server.

>> https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/08/what-is-mastodon/

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by tshaddox »

Groxx wrote: post #247
tshaddox wrote: post #242

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A social network being invite-only is such an obvious non-starter that I genuinely can't imagine the conversation that went into that decision. Assuming the basic underlying tech works more often that not (and ideally some story for community moderation), there's literally nothing I want from a Twitter competitor other than having everyone on it . My interest in a Twitter competitor that is invite-only is and will al…

It works extremely well - it guarantees you know* someone on the social network. No empty feeds, no literally-no-one to talk at, you have someone you can ask questions about the site, etc. Speaking from experience working on a social site with loads of signup flow experiments: the results are consistently wild . It's no competition on all the normally-valued metrics like interactions and retention. *for some degree o…

There’s not much value in knowing “someone” on a social network. Especially someone who was already able to send me an invite out-of-band.

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by rvbissell »

akomtu wrote: post #301
rvbissell wrote: post #290

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Sue himself?

He can afford to sue himself, and even hire two very expensive law firms to represent both sides. He can even drag this case for decades, appealing court decisions and requesting expensive discovery, maybe even take it to supreme court.

Well, that would keep him in the news...

Re: Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting Instagram account, Meta says

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Post by [deleted] »

paxys wrote: post #286
Groxx wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It works extremely well - it guarantees you know* someone on the social network. No empty feeds, no literally-no-one to talk at, you have someone you can ask questions about the site, etc. Speaking from experience working on a social site with loads of signup flow experiments: the results are consistently wild . It's no competition on all the normally-valued metrics like interactions and retention. *for some degree o…

It guarantees you know one person on the network. And if you like it and want to invite everyone else – tough luck. Threads solved the cold start problem by not having a personal feed at all at launch. There is only a single algorithmically curated one, prioritizing first/second/third/etc degree connections and otherwise showing content from everyone else. So the place always felt alive from day 1.

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