It’s been out for less than ten days and it already has more than 35x the number of total users as Mastodon. It might not be for us, but saying that no one would want to use it is just sour grapes.
Unless you’re willing to put in a decent amount of work, your giving someone your data. So people have gotten very ‘whatever who cares’ about it. Full time working people with kids aren’t taking time to research. And people want to interact. If everyone is doing it, they’re not going to miss out.
We have long answered the question “if your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?” There is a large percent who absolutely would.
The average person doesn’t know. I bet your parents don’t check the privacy policy when they download an app.
The average person might not care. We live in an era where lots of people would literally put listening devices in their houses.
If you’re already on Twitter, a decent amount of your data was already being shared anyways.
Most people go to different social media platforms because (paradoxically) people are on those platforms.
A decent amount of people might just dislike Musk because he calls people pedophiles for… helping kids or cucks for… making competing software??? So they’d rather give money to the next billionaire available.
While we on here makes it look like there are a ton of people who value their privacy on the internet, the general population by large isn’t really aware how bad it is or have the know how to do something about it. The rest who do know don’t really care that much.
I’ve pretty quickly concluded that sour grapes are in no short supply here.
That so many people genuinely cannot fathom the concept that many people actually like social media - and may even be aware of the privacy cost and find it acceptable - really speaks more about how out-of-touch a lot of people here are than anything else.
The numbers are highly skewed because of the launch. A number of users are being paid to create content during the launch. A lot of the users are just checking out the hype. Some will stay, many won’t.
The numbers won’t really be useful or comparable until the dust settles. I give it a month.
Shadow profiles for a social media that require use through a mobile app that requires a bunch of permissions? I guess Windows and the Android app installation might be way around it. But, feel like even using just a random account on a phone exposes so much. Even tiktok you can sign up and use through just a browser or lurk without an account.
It’s been out for less than ten days and it already has more than 35x the number of total users as Mastodon. It might not be for us, but saying that no one would want to use it is just sour grapes.
It’s the volume of person data it scoops up. I don’t understand why anyone would happily share that much information just to use a social media app.
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Most people just don’t care.
Unless you’re willing to put in a decent amount of work, your giving someone your data. So people have gotten very ‘whatever who cares’ about it. Full time working people with kids aren’t taking time to research. And people want to interact. If everyone is doing it, they’re not going to miss out.
We have long answered the question “if your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?” There is a large percent who absolutely would.
This link has a decent comparison of a lot of social media sites’ privacy policies.
While we on here makes it look like there are a ton of people who value their privacy on the internet, the general population by large isn’t really aware how bad it is or have the know how to do something about it. The rest who do know don’t really care that much.
I’ve pretty quickly concluded that sour grapes are in no short supply here.
That so many people genuinely cannot fathom the concept that many people actually like social media - and may even be aware of the privacy cost and find it acceptable - really speaks more about how out-of-touch a lot of people here are than anything else.
It seems like a more extreme version of the weird elitism around social media that was always present on Reddit.
The numbers are highly skewed because of the launch. A number of users are being paid to create content during the launch. A lot of the users are just checking out the hype. Some will stay, many won’t.
The numbers won’t really be useful or comparable until the dust settles. I give it a month.
35x maybe because every Instagram account also got a Threads account?
Not quite. This is 15% of Instagram.
That’s not hard when you create shadow profiles.
Shadow profiles for a social media that require use through a mobile app that requires a bunch of permissions? I guess Windows and the Android app installation might be way around it. But, feel like even using just a random account on a phone exposes so much. Even tiktok you can sign up and use through just a browser or lurk without an account.