Even if there were no bots and it was only “real” content from Threads … is that the sort of content we want to have Lemmy flooded with?
lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
please take a look at the replies under zuck’s own post in threads.net and determine if that’s the type of content you want.
for those who don’t want to visit, majority of the commentators are bots. some advertising crypto, and others asking for money.
even if you think you can individually block those accounts, keep in mind the size of threads compared to fediverse.
for Lemmy: monthly active users are barely 150K, while for threads it’s 100 million. there’s no chance you can control that inflow of bots.
and if it still doesn’t convince you, you can read threads’ privacy policy, which states that they’ll gather all that pii if you interact with their content.
most of the internet is already bigtech, I don’t want Lemmy to become another arm of it. though I have faith in my instance maintainer and dessalines, the dev.
oatscoop@midwest.social 6 months ago
masterspace@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
This is dumb gatekeeping nonsense. It’s the exact same asshole bullshit behaviour we saw on Reddit when people complained about it getting popular.
Reddit is far better for reaching a wide audience then it was when it was just a bunch of 20 something nerds.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Mr @zuck is there any chance of you reading my messages about my request for 2M$ man i have been trying every day to contact you and waiting for your response since last 5 months . I have told you why i am asking you for 2M$ i dont know if you ever read my messages but in short you are the only who can make it happen and if there is someone who can give me 2M$ its only you so please read my messages and please make it happen for us and change our lives I am waiting for you since last 5 months .
Looks like the exact same bullshit as facebook and twitter. There might be better examples of good or bad posting though since Zuckerzuck’s posts are especially spammed out, since splammy people think they’re especially good for visibility.
lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
yeah, but I didn’t want more brain damage sifting through accounts over there lol. but still, when you have a 100 million mau, there are going to be a ton of bots, especially when there are next to no moderators.
Zeppo@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’ve barely ever used threads, in a large part because they don’t have a fully functional website and require use of an app. So I have no idea… I assume there’s some quality content but I agree that it must be flooded with BS too. I’d be interested in seeing what a Lemmy instance connected to threads looks like. I assume it would wreck browsing ‘New’.
ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I don’t really have much faith in the developers myself. Considering all the shenanigans they get upto.
lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
I do however have real faith in the main developer of lemmy, considering his ideology, which is incompatible with bigtech values.
you can even see it from his own profile.
jimbo@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Your public account info and your public posts is not “PII”, it’s what’s necessary for every instance in the fediverse to work. How do you think people are going to see your name and your posts if their servers can’t access it?
lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
sorry, I didn’t follow the legal definition of what’s PII in the comment.
with meta, just the IP address and one visit is enough to personally identify you though. they have testified before that they have profiles on users who haven’t signed up with any of their (dis)services at all.
and threads explicitly states in their privacy policy that they use pixels and web beacons, which they use for this purpose.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Yeah, but nothing about that changes when federating with them.