Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly showed up on Google Play
www.theverge.com
Threads is probably getting released soon.
    • TMoney ( TMoney@beehaw.org ) English
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      3 years ago

      That’s kind of my thoughts on Microsoft after all these years. They used to be the big evil and now they seem like adults compared to a lot of tech companies

      • cnqr ( cnqr@beehaw.org ) English
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        3 years ago

        Meta won’t really sell your data to 3Ps. Giving up 1P data is such a bad business model.

        They will sell their targeting audiences created using your data to advertisers.

        If you are thinking about Cambridge Analytica, they shared the data with an Academic under the agreement to be used in academic research only. It’s still wrong, because you can provide a cleaned, privacy-safe® version, but the assholes just shared it.

        The main problem with Meta is that they are super aggressive in collecting any and all data about you and then link it to you. That’s why DMA is super important.

        • Ignacio [he] ( Ignacio@beehaw.org ) English
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          3 years ago

          Thanks to GDPR, data from EU citizens can’t go to third countries, unless there is an agreement between such countries, and even in that case, the data has to be minimal and essential (no health data, no race data, no political data, and so on).

          But meta doesn’t care, it does whatever the hell it wants to do.

    • Dan_Rachevaski ( Dan_Rachevaski@beehaw.org ) English
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      3 years ago

      I don’t know man. On one hand, we all know how shitty Facebook has become. On the other hand, even Zuckerburg at least didn’t limit its users to see only 500, 600 posts a day. Not to say FB is any better, but we are talking the bottom of the barrel here so…one better than another is not really that relevant.

  • gortbrown ( gortbrown@lemmy.sdf.org ) English
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    3 years ago

    I’ll be interested to see what that is all about, especially since it’s supposed to be compatible with ActivityPub platforms. Of course, it’s Meta we’re talking about here, so there’s reason for skepticism, but I’m interested to see how things play out regardless.