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About Instagram's "Threads" and people's concerns about privacy (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know that many people are concerned about "Threads" privacy policy and are all screaming "WE WILL BLOCK THREADS". I honestly can't see how it's going to gather any personal information since Lemmy, mastodon etc. doesn't collect any information at all. Like, how can you gather information about user, if he doesn't have any information about himself. Sure, Threads will collect info about its users, that's obvious, but I think it's a bad idea to just block it from the start

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (11 children)

It's not just about personal data. But what will definitely happen is they're going to attempt an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. They'll embrace the fediverse, then they'll add their own features on top on their platform without giving back to the wider community. Then, when they leech as many people to their platform as they can from the rest of the Fediverse after making open projects struggle to keep up, they'll drop it and kill the rest of the network in the process.

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

They got 10M signups in hours. I honestly don’t think they are in this after “the rest of the fediverse.”

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

If they didn't care about the population on the Fediverse, they wouldn't implement it. They might be concerned about what it could be in the future, rather than what it is now.

By invading the space and outdoing the competition, they gobble up the growth our space could have had more effectively.

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