Can Meta scrape the data off other apps like mastodon from federated communities? I don't exactly know how that works. I'm assuming mastodon and other not profit based apps don't track any data so how would meta joining the fediverse change it?
I think it's all but given that meta would have the largest number of users using its apps in the fediverse. Threads already has 2 million sign-ups in hours so it would be a miss to just defederate from it and lock down millions of users from interacting with meta users. Let's see how it goes.
Edit: 5 million sign-ups in 4 hours according to zuck
thispersondoesnotexist.com has been around since 2019
Scientists studying hunter-gatherer societies around the world discovered the stereotypes that men were hunters and women were gatherers was wrong.
![Men hunt and women gather? Large analysis says the long-held idea is flat-out wrong](https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/a552ecd6-4602-4488-ba3d-286f4c8fd358.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Scientists studying hunter-gatherer societies around the world discovered the stereotypes that men were hunters and women were gatherers was wrong.
![Men hunt and women gather? Large analysis says the long-held idea is flat-out wrong](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/f88f6ceb-2815-401a-8e5d-ff3e0b6cc6e0.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Australia has become the first country to allow psychiatrists to prescribe certain psychedelic substances to patients with depression or PTSD.
![In a world first, Australia legalizes psychedelics to treat mental health](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d8482d02-0a28-42e2-975a-05a931808e5e.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Worldwide, glass manufacturing produces at least 86 million tons of carbon dioxide every year. A new type of glass promises to cut this carbon footprint in half. The invention, called LionGlass and engineered by researchers at Penn State, requires significantly less energy to produce and is much mor...
![New glass cuts carbon footprint by nearly half and is 10x more damage resistant | Penn State University](https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6d52d4ac-53cf-42d6-878b-b2f280a037d0.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Eh... All the data is already with meta through Instagram, it's users is the target here. I'm sure most of Instagram users aren't complaining that much about collection of data. As long as this kills twitter I'm happy. Who knows it might point the rest of the users towards eventual decentralisation.
You probably found a bunch of people with niche (if any) interests and/or friends from Twitter or other social media who are active enough for your feed to be populated. A lot of people use twitter to follow news, celebrities, journalists and shitposting accounts with large following as there's lots of discussions under tweets with massive reach. Most people don't interact themselves at all but just scroll. Mastodon doesn't have these big accounts as of now so there's not much activity for the majority of regular twitter users.
More platform instability could be in Twitter’s future, with the company reportedly refusing to pay Google for the Cloud services contract the two signed in 2018..
![Twitter has reportedly refused to pay its Google Cloud contract | Engadget](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/lpFpoGFVW0.jpg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
WhatsApp, YouTube, Spotify
wefwef is the smoothest right now and it's just a webapp
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Got it. Thanks!
I have the same username setup on sh.itjust.works and kbin. I'm trying to understand if it's just one account or two. Bit confusing.