In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”

  • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d guess you have to like Twitter in the first place to understand the appeal. Some people like it, some don’t, but the Twitter format has been pretty popular over the years, and this comes at at time when Elron has been making twitter dramatically worse for anyone who doesn’t share his political views. Meta gives the appeal as “having a platform that is sanely run, that they believe that they can trust and rely upon for distribution”. At this point, even if I thought Elron was a great guy I sure wouldn’t invest much in building my twitter account as the future of the site seems shaky. Also though, on the other hand, who knows if this will be a success for Meta and whether they’ll still support it 3 years from now.

    • scottywh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I do have a Twitter account but I almost never use it anymore because it has become such a cesspool…

      I just don’t think another copy of that cesspool run by a different asshole is likely to really be any more interesting than the original.

      • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I did have an account, until the API changes made Twitteriffic unusable and all the people I follow left. Then I started using Reddit.

        Now I use Mastodon and Lemmy. I will not go back to using a Social network that does not have; A) an open API which allows my choice of third party apps. B) a way to migrate my data and content.

        The exceptions are Apple Messages (for family and close friends), SMS (for family and close friends who do t have iPhones) and Facebook under a fake name, sandboxed in FireFox Focus.