But, thanks for this summary of how Threads looks like, since I'm avoiding it like a plague. You seriously can't even select what content you see? Fuck, that's way worse than I though - that's so obviously a ML model manipulating with people without holding anything back. I hope they've at least done something with the misalingment where it seems to just radicalize people to keep them on the platform, because if not, the world is fucked.

I hate Meta so much...

[–] seperis@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Fortunately I have never had instagram and have a policy of never, ever using my wallet name online except as needed (exception: usenet my first year online; I was young and reckless). LinkedIn and Facebook were quite literally because a.) grandparents and other family, b.) my job, and c.) I realized early on that I needed an official web presence under my real name because there would be questions if there wasn't something out there.

So I made an instagram account then made a threads account, got a friend who had it to follow me, and did a quick dive.

I mean, it's literally a minimalist twitter real doll; I deactivated to keep my name intact, logged out, and deleted instagram and Threads on the phone in under five minutes and took a shower because I never realized the uncanny valley applied to an app's aesthetic. It's just--I mean, no. No no no.

[–] lagomorphlecture@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Trust me, they've taken any knowledge their new ex Twitter employees had about radicalizing people to keep them on the platform and integrated it fully.

[–] FinalBoy1975@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, exactly. I don't have Facebook, Instagram, etc. because I hate them as an online experience. I'm here because it's not that kind of experience. If the fediverse turns into the type of experience meta imposes on its users, I would just have to hope that something else alternative that I like pops up.

[–] EricHill78@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity I tried it for a few minutes yesterday. All I saw was a bunch of influencers and low level memes. I had duck duck go tracker blocker on just to see how bad they are and it's worse than I could ever imagine. It showed 686 tracker attempts from 35 different companies and I was only on for about 10 minutes.

[–] Mikina@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

And that's another issue - if we federate, you won't even be able to block those trackers, because the Meta instance will just be able to ask the server for those data, if I understood it correctly.