After multiple EU-based users complained about not being able to access Threads app through VPN, Meta confirmed it is blocking such efforts.
    • lightsecond@programming.devEnglish
      815·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • 47_Alpha_Tango@lemmy.worldEnglish
        244·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • pewter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          9·
          1 year ago
          1. The average person doesn’t know. I bet your parents don’t check the privacy policy when they download an app.
          2. The average person might not care. We live in an era where lots of people would literally put listening devices in their houses.
          3. If you’re already on Twitter, a decent amount of your data was already being shared anyways.
          4. Most people go to different social media platforms because (paradoxically) people are on those platforms.
          5. 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.

          This link has a decent comparison of a lot of social media sites’ privacy policies.

          • 47_Alpha_Tango@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            For point one my parents don’t even bother to read error messages. They just close them then phone me and complain the computer is broken.

            I also don’t use Twitter and haven’t for many years now. Even longer for Facebook.

        • scytale@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          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.

      • Spaceman Spiff@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        61·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • Maharashtra@lemmy.worldEnglish
    291·
    1 year ago

    Why shouldn’t it? They are interested in personal data, not some fabricated online personalities.

    Let it be the perfect counterargument to every moron who says “I’m not that important”. Yes, you are. If you weren’t, the Big Tech wouldn’t go to such length to acquire all the data about you, they can put their sweaty palms on.

  • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Of course they are blocking VPNs, but using one to access Meta is more effort than it’s worth.