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.
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 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.
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.
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.
I have also come to this conclusion. You are very accurate in your statement about how many are out of touch here
It seems like a more extreme version of the weird elitism around social media that was always present on Reddit.
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.
This link has a decent comparison of a lot of social media sites’ privacy policies.
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.
35x maybe because every Instagram account also got a Threads account?
Not quite. This is 15% of Instagram.