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Will people here use/try Meta's #threads when available? Would love to know the reasons or if it would be just for fun/curiosity.

The amount of data collected is insane imo.

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[โ€“] edu4rdshl@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Agreed ๐Ÿ’ฏ. Didn't know they were planning to federate.

[โ€“] XTornado@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well people say it's an attempt at the famous "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" from Microsoft.

[โ€“] krzysiu@open-source.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Exactly, it looks like among other things this could be an attempt to destroy the Fediverse from within. I think it is a good idea for anybody involved in the Fediverse to read this article, which talks exactly about how this could happen: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html