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Sounds like Meta wants to force you to give them your phone number.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

I wonder if they will ever implement ActivityPub and federate. I know, there's fear of "Embrace, Extend and Extinguish", but still, that would allow privacy-minded people to follow Threads users without giving them such data by using Mastodon, CalcKey and other micro-blogging apps.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Yayy, fuck up your instance and use it for a damn Meta proxy.

I hope if they try that the instances simply defederate. And I like Federation and want more people on here, and I miss the variety of non tech content. But still, no thanks

People actively choosing a new network by Meta are just too stupid to be worth breaking our ecosystem, period.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this is wildly elitist holy shit

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why? There is a long history of legal battles, academic studies, reports, news articles, and everything else detailing how Facebook, Instagram, and Meta are simply rotten all the way through. It's a concerted effort by them going back years. Anyone signing up for a new service by them either isn't paying attention, or is ok with self harm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know it sounds like that. But you may keep contacts, but this only makes sense if they also use the same new app. There is so little reason to use it

  • no political groups, NGOs, Politics or damn restaurants using this "Web 2.0" instead of having their own Website
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