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[–] Fillet@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago
[–] mightysashiman@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I had not heard of that new shit. Randomnly went to theverge, and and saw they are forcefeeding this new Threads to everyone as the “top articles”. Almost 100K posts already, 35millions accounts activated. People just don’t learn.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Meta wants to metastasize.

[–] JustSomeGuy@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pfffft. What's the drama? So you create a new insta account with no info and then pop it to Threads. They get nothing and you still get to see what's what.

[–] Rekorse@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Are you really so thick to think that your workaround solves the problem?

[–] Deathsauce@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Take me back in time to the 2000s when the most scandalous spyware was a purple gorilla virtual assistant telling awful jokes with a TTS voice.

[–] LollerCorleone@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

What else did you expect from Meta?

[–] Little8Lost@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

and likely that is the reason why it did not come to EU on start

[–] moxival@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

I cannot comprehend how are people using these apps. Why would you want want to be tracked and targeted by a corporation like Meta is beyond me, what are you gaining in return of your whole data