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

submitted 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year ago

after making open projects struggle to keep up, they’ll drop it and kill the rest of the network in the process.

But are we trying to keep up? Lemmy as we know it is composed of instances run by small groups, with nowhere near the same backing that the biggest tech companies have. Meta, Reddit, whoever the company is- they can advertise, promote, bribe, and do whatever they want to boost their numbers.

I don't think it would kill the network. As long as instances like these remain honest and working, with a dedicated following, people who want to escape Meta will have somewhere to go.

And as @Ignacio said in this thread, it's the users fault if they decide to move to and depend on a platform that's bad for them.