dr_dour

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[–] dr_dour 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Can Meta scrape the data off other apps like mastodon from federated communities? I don't exactly know how that works. I'm assuming mastodon and other not profit based apps don't track any data so how would meta joining the fediverse change it?

I think it's all but given that meta would have the largest number of users using its apps in the fediverse. Threads already has 2 million sign-ups in hours so it would be a miss to just defederate from it and lock down millions of users from interacting with meta users. Let's see how it goes.

Edit: 5 million sign-ups in 4 hours according to zuck

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[–] dr_dour 8 points 1 year ago

thispersondoesnotexist.com has been around since 2019

[–] dr_dour 2 points 1 year ago

Eh... All the data is already with meta through Instagram, it's users is the target here. I'm sure most of Instagram users aren't complaining that much about collection of data. As long as this kills twitter I'm happy. Who knows it might point the rest of the users towards eventual decentralisation.

[–] dr_dour 2 points 1 year ago

Apple books on the ipad

[–] dr_dour 3 points 1 year ago

You probably found a bunch of people with niche (if any) interests and/or friends from Twitter or other social media who are active enough for your feed to be populated. A lot of people use twitter to follow news, celebrities, journalists and shitposting accounts with large following as there's lots of discussions under tweets with massive reach. Most people don't interact themselves at all but just scroll. Mastodon doesn't have these big accounts as of now so there's not much activity for the majority of regular twitter users.

[–] dr_dour 2 points 1 year ago
[–] dr_dour 2 points 2 years ago

It's not illegal to go to old.reddit.com and post links from there to communities here on lemmy. If you really want to contribute, pick a few communities and populate them with top posts from reddit.

[–] dr_dour 2 points 2 years ago
[–] dr_dour 2 points 2 years ago

WhatsApp, YouTube, Spotify

[–] dr_dour 1 points 2 years ago

wefwef is the smoothest right now and it's just a webapp

[–] dr_dour 3 points 2 years ago
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