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Post by skilled »

easyThrowaway wrote: post #132
skilled wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who is we? Is this 'we' you're talking about in the room right now?

You mean the... drum rolls Collective Zeitgeist?[1] Of course it's in the room, man. At least since the mid 20th century. You know, the society Of spectacle[2], the whole "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" thing. I know, I hate it too. Elon has become the Kanye of IT world. That's unfortunate but it's the truth. (Late Registration also is way better than any Tesla around though, so maybe no…

I just find it impressive that you can draw conclusions about persons/situations and state them as facts when you yourself have no personal investment in them.

You don't find that a little bit strange? Instead of saying "It's a Twitter clone", you thought it would be wise to drag people into your own miserable (and false) opinions. For what, to make them just as miserable?

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Post by lifeonlars »

skilled wrote: post #42
easyThrowaway wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A twitter clone with a different, less impulsive weirdo CEO at the helm.

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.

Technically Elon Musk is a CEO, and he is at the helm of Twitter, so Twitter does have an impulsive weirdo CEO at the helm, even if that impulsive weirdo CEO isn't the CEO of Twitter.

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Post by jsnell »

holoduke wrote: post #99
jsnell wrote: post #18

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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.

Sorry thats just bs. The required psrmissions of the app is worrying. Imho the app only need 'internet and browse internal files' permission. Not location, device info and other sensitive data.

If the GP had given "access to location" as an example of the obscene permissions, I would not have replied. That's indeed a permission that the app requests (but AFAIK doesn't require or automatically get!), and people can judge for themselves whether requesting that permission is reasonable or not.

But the GP didn't do that. They gave access to health data as the example, and that's just not a permission that the app asks for. (Is it even a permission that exists?). It's pretty clear that they're just regurgitating that misleading screenshot that was making the rounds a couple of days ago with no understanding.

If the app's privacy story really is that bad, one should be able to make that case while sticking to the facts.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by jug »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #20
jackdh wrote: post #10

Seems like it might be starting to fall over, trying to load https://www.threads.net/@zuck times out.

Surely this is due to Zuckerberg’s poor leadership and inevitable upcoming demise. I say this sarcastically because that was the narrative whenever Twitter has had load issues.

The instances aren't comparable.

It's normal to happen during extreme growth of several millions per hour. Less normal to suddenly happen to a functioning website post-organic growth for a decade.

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Post by nbittich »

extr wrote: post #54

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 don't know what kind of content you're interested in but my for you page is full of porgramming related tweets, football and retro computing. The only keyword I had to mute is chatgpt. You get the stuff that triggers you the most.

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Post by rkangel »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #20
jackdh wrote: post #10

Seems like it might be starting to fall over, trying to load https://www.threads.net/@zuck times out.

Surely this is due to Zuckerberg’s poor leadership and inevitable upcoming demise. I say this sarcastically because that was the narrative whenever Twitter has had load issues.

It's a reasonable response to Twitter's issues because of Musk publicising that he was going to clear out Twitter's bloated architecture. If you take responsibility for an architecture it's ok to be criticised if things go wrong.

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Post by jug »

wraptile wrote: post #61

I didn't have any expectations and still left unimpressed. All of the dark patterns are already there. No timeline control, no web UI, everything is aimed at data harvesting and it brings absolutely zero new innovation. It's kinda sad that we can't make a better Twitter. Is that really it?

Bluesky has custom timeline control and web UI, and Mastodon is another potential option.

For people saying it's not taking off, my Swedish community over at Mastodon is currently about as active as on Twitter. I think we're passing critical mass especially with the most recent exodus that filled the ranks even more. And yes it looks like not all but many are staying.

Re: Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

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Post by aapl88889 »

extr wrote: post #54

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…

Facebook isn't hostile and they don't have moderation issues? Are you kidding?

I also like the bit on how you dismiss wholesale IP theft from a large corporation because you have issues with Musk.

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Post by rvz »

pschuegr wrote: post #117
extr wrote: post #54

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…

> nobody does hyperscale content moderation better than Meta This is not the glowing recommendation some might think, it's more of a condemnation of the state of moderation. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-...

Don't worry. The Rohingya genocide accelerated by Meta is all forgotten. /s Elon Musk is now the villain of the month and we now want Meta to have a social media monopoly with Twitter to completely collapse into the ground.

Once TikTok gets fined out of the US and Twitter collapses (any minute now /s) out of existence, we will now have Zuckerberg be the arbiter of truth on a third social networking platform.

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