Technology @lemmy.world ekZepp @lemmy.world 1y ago

No Thanks—Why I'm Avoiding Instagram Threads.

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I'm mainly avoiding it because it's dumb
- That. I never understood the usefullness of twitter anyway so i won't find Threads usefull either
  
  It's because you don't idolize celebrities and other famous figures enough to know what they do daily.
  
  It was great for artists and scientists. My twitter feed was mainly filled with paleoartists and paleontologists bickering about the fullness of t rex lips and I sorely miss it.
I'm avoiding it because I have Meta's entire network blocked at my router. 😄
Did we really need a YouTube video to explain why one shouldn't use meta products?
- I really don't get this trend of turning everything into a video. Is it supposed to be easier to consume?
  
  I would much rather read an article and get the information I want at the pace I want.
  
  My workplace has taught me that the majority of adults cannot read above a fifth grade level.
  
  Yep. If it's a video it gets a hard pass from me. They can get their 'views' from someone else.
  
  videos are easier to consume while doing something else. reading may be faster, but you can't drive to work, do the dishes, workout, etc. while reading. if you're not into multitasking then reading is the clearly better option, but I think most young people have grown up so surrounded by barrages of inormation from different sources all at once that multitasking comes extremely naturally to them
  
  Just be thankful it’s an 8 minute video and not a 2 minute tic tok full of weird facial expressions.
  
  glad to know that I'm not alone who prefers to read articles over watching videos
  
  Videos get more money per impression
Because Reddit in my opinion was the least worst social network until a month ago, now that I’m gone I’m not going to go signing up for another Zuckerberg/musk/spez monstrosity. I go on TikTok because I have a teenage daughter and we need something to talk about. Other than that…no. Federation/non-profit or nothing.
I mean, the fact that it's made by Meta should be a good enough reason. I'm avoiding Meta like the plague. Fucking sucks that I need Facebook Messenger for school group chats though.
- Yea, that's the problem, I want to de-meta as much as I can, but real-life their network effect is so large you can't not use them on some level. While I've not been using Facebook for years, I still have to use WhatsApp. xD
I tried to use Threads but I couldn't change my visible username without going to Instagram, which I never used in my life ..... and then I went to instagram to update my Threads profile but I couldn't because I needed a Facebook account, which I don't have. I found this incredibly frustrating and dumb so I uninstalled everything.
- @MrLovenstein@mastodon.social
Twitter was always trash. Why would I want to use a halfassed knockoff version from an exponentially worse company?
- Elron somehow made Twitter so bad that fake Zuckbook Twitter looks good by comparison.
I’m avoiding because is Meta, deleted FB and Instagram in 2015 and WhatsApp when they merged the accounts! Already blocked Threads domain on my Pi-hole!
- Same here! I dodged FB when they listed on the stock exchange.
Honestly! I don’t think a lot of people care about privacy.
- Honestly if you're using Lemmy all this information is already publicly accessible, any public forum isnt privacy friendly
  
  Sure, the information we post here is public, but you can remain anonymous if you want.
  
  I’m not talking about the public stuff, because that’s not where the money is for Meta. Here is the stuff the Thread app collects
  
  Now juxtapose that with what the Lemmy app collects.
Ok so Mastadon it is then
I'm avoiding it because:

I live in the European Union. Yay!

Either I have gazillions of followers, or I'm a mere leprous peasant not worthy to interact with.
Imagine using a product by Facebook. The same company which sold millions of its user data to ad company without their user knowledge. 🤡
Meh, seriously contemplating deleting my Facebook, mostly for oooold friends. I enjoy Instagram. Fuck Threads. WhatsApp is the shit. And I'm in the EU.

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