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[-] PineapplePartisan@lemmy.world 132 points 2 years ago

They gave up all their personal data to see a crappy algo-driven social media site. Meta still considers this a win.

[-] master5o1@lemmy.nz 84 points 2 years ago

What new personal information did meta get from Instagram users enabling threads?

[-] saegiru@lemmy.world 71 points 2 years ago

The real answer is nothing, assuming they already had an Instagram account. People are all up in arms, but the majority of 'signups' were just people clicking the activation button as opposed to creating a new account.

That said, I currently will praise anything that takes more users away from Twitter. Lesser of two evils and all that.

[-] leo@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 40 points 2 years ago

Not that I disagree much, but... what a world we live in where Meta is the lesser of two evils...

[-] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Well, that’s enough internet for today, day drinking anyone?

[-] Doom_Cough@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Day dosing more like it.

[-] Mikelius@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I’d argue Meta takes the cake just with Cambridge Analytica in terms of damage. Let alone all the other shit. But yeah, choose between ebola and the black plague…

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 7 points 2 years ago

Plus, Elon is more likely to run Twitter into the ground than Zuck is Meta, so that alone makes Meta the bigger threat.

[-] zeppo@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I agree, it’s amazing. Musk has been such a dumbfuck that he has managed to make Mark Zuckerberg look good by comparison.

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