Anybody using Threads yet?

[trappedslider]

AFAIK Microsoft only has it in association with Xbox and the gaming industry, so they're probably safe from that. But if Musk ends up being unable to use his pet domain name because Zuckerberg owns the trademark in social media, it'll be funny. The fact that our entertainment comes from seeing billionaires fight petty battles is cyberpunk dystopian-levels of sad, but that's pretty funny.

 

[Ondath]

I delved into the privacy policy of Threads, and while it's got some weirdly particular stuff in it (it wants to collect my sexual orientation and trade union membership...), apparently Instagram already collects these. The launch in the EU being delayed is due to the EU not allowing one company to combine data from multiple platforms, and Threads combining its data with Instagram seems to be the thing that's causing issues there.

But on the user side, it looks like if you already have an Instagram account, you already handed all the info you didn't want to give to Meta. Since I already have an Instagram, I think I will just open up a Threads account now. Twitter is becoming unbearable.

 

[dragoner]

What I find hilarious about instagram and places, is that it has to pick up on what my wife is looking at, so it's like Native American, and Native American women trying make-up, because the algorithm has given up on what a 50 something eastern european guy likes.

 

[CleverNickName]

Moved from the other thread:

So I woke up to a fresh crop of memes this morning.

Some of this seemed a bit over-the-top, so I had to look it up. (And besides: it's just generally good practice to verify everything you find online, especially if you intend to share it.) Here are the sources:

• Twitter has officially rebranded
• Musk suggests 'tweets' will be called 'Xs.'
• The '@X' vs. '@twitter' thing was true, up until about 24 hours ago
• Possible legal battle coming over "X" as a trademark
• Twitter's new logo and the generic Unicode
• Twitter's new name clashing with the name of Japanese rock band X JAPAN
• Twitter's office sign
• 'Xvideos' now trending because of Twitter platform's new name

So the @twitter thing is out of date. And the Unicode thing and the Xvideo thing might be a little exaggerated, but they're not entirely wrong.

 

[J.Quondam]

Moved from the other thread:

So I woke up to a fresh crop of memes this morning.

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[CleverNickName]

The attachment seems to be broken.

Sorry, it should be fixed now.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

As someone who uses Twitter for work, and has been on it for 15 years (and used to be one of the hated blue check folks, rather than the new group of hated blue checks), Twitter is becoming really bad. The technical glitches are embarrassing, but the content has gotten far meaner and the awfulness seems to be accelerating.

In his effort to get verified users not to be mean to him, Musk essentially spent billions of dollars to turn Twitter into Parler.

 

[ichabod]

Musk essentially spent billions of dollars to turn Twitter into Parler.

I thought that was his plan all along.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I thought that was his plan all along.

Musk has a plan in the same way a bull in a china shop has a plan.

 

[dragoner]

ISTR he bought it on a dare. Such is stupid money.