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i've yet to see a genuine social post on threads
all infuencer wannabees and AI and motivational junk and blue site girls
social media be dead. welcome to advertisement media.
 
Has anyone ever met or heard someone publicly admit they use Threads? Hell, anyone who knows what it even is. I'm sure this is just forced logins from IG/FB.
Since you're asking for anecdotal evidence (as opposed to actual data, which this thread is based on), yes.

Of the major social media platforms, X is the one people may have a problem with "publicly admitting" they're on, for some obvious reasons.
 
We all need to stay away from these US platforms. Especially if you’re European or not US American.

US services are a security threat these days and there are good alternatives available like Matodon for X/Threads/BlueSky, Pixelfed for Instagram and etc.
 
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I have never seen anyone use threads, nor talk about threads and I am heavily in a tech business. Also "formerly Twitter" at this point is stupid, its been four years.

Exactly - just call it Twitter like everyone else I know does.
 
You're basically choosing the lesser of 2 evils to hand your data over to. 🤷‍♂️

Zuckerberg has had whatever data I choose to put on a social network (which like everyone I know, is really not a significant amount of my life) since 2008 and guess what - nothing negative has happened. In fact i'd say Instagram ads are vaguely useful sometimes. I never see ads on Facebook, Threads or Meta Quest so.
 
Threads?

Why not BlueSky? Or Mastodon? Who thinks to themselves, "I want a microblogging site, but from Facebook!"
 
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It's wild people would flee Elon for Zuckerberg. I understand people being averse to Elon, but they don't hesitate giving all their data to Meta?

Yeah, imagine a world where Zuckerberg, of all people, is the lesser of two evils. This whole timeline just boggles the mind.
 
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Threads is almost as bad as X.

Besides all the usual suspects you see on X, Threads is filled with Meta shills constantly trying to promote their products or outright lying about things they do (like their rampant data collection of users to sell ads).
 
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I'm surprised to be honest.
Just judging by how many begs I see on Instagram, breathlessly trying to get me to click through to Threads.
'Hey Calaveras! Your friends Foo and Widget are already on Threads! Why not check it out!'
OTOH everyone I know has bailed on Twitter since it was taken over by some South African raver.
 
threads is by dar the worse "social media" platform. its pretty much an algorithm on steroids to flood you with rage bait, porn and spam
 
I don't trust Meta with respect to morality or competency. I wouldn't jump on board with anything they're trying to put out there.
 
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