I made a promise to myself stay away from Facebook as much as possible. (Pretty hard to do here in SEA)

One word : enshittification

Kind of amusing you even posted the question, but I appreciate the sincerity and curiosity. Also! No.

I’ll try it.

Contrary to the majority consensus here, I already utilize Instagram so this data has already been collected for years. (An unfortunate “what’s new”)

We’ll see if it catches on at all…it will be nice once we can see “Threads” from Mastodon so that I can use any of the more privacy respecting apps out there, but until then I think it’s worth seeing how things work.

Njet.

lol no

No.

• As you pointed out way too many data permissions
• While I'm not in the "everything for-profit companies does is inherently evil" camp, Meta has done some sketchy stuff.
• It's mostly microblogging from what I can tell, and that's best in smaller instances or instances heavily moderated / filtered to feel that way which Threads likely won't be
• It's name, even though it won't really be mixed threads like the name implies, will mess up momentum for the Threadiverse to mean AP actual threaded apps, and terms are hard.
• I'm sure their TOS, privacy policies, or moderation policies aren't going to be any better than other Meta apps.

That being said, I do like:

• They are planning to federate via AP unlike Bluesky
• Meta is trying new things other than VR.

In case you're curious about it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.barcelona

I find it weird that no one is linking it. I literally had to find it on APKMirror.

Nope, I hate Meta and everything it stands for. I will never use their products.

I still don't know what this threads thing even is, aside from being bootleg Twitter...

I am. I'm a digital marketer by trade. Gotta try everything. Am I going to stick with it? Who knows!

I'm staying away from anything relating to Meta/Facebook

That’s a hard “no” from me.

No

I believe the phrase ""Oh FUCK no" has never been more appropriate.

Absolutely not.

Big fat no from me. I don’t want to see ads in my sleep.

No, won't sign up on that privacy nightmare. Though, once it does support ActivityPub, I'll probably follow people who are not on Mastodon yet.

Nope. As it will just end like reddit or meta. And i dont want anything to do with that

I'd rather eat surstromming.

Absolutely not, Meta can get screwed. The sooner the company crashes and burn, the better. It caused too much damage worldwide.

Out of curiosity I might would've but not for long term and given that it seems to require an Instragram account I'm not really interested.

Hell no