• Alethe Crow
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    102 years ago

    I’m almost willing to put money on the fact Facebook likely has shady stuff buried in “Threads” code. The sheer invasiveness of them just makes it hard to think otherwise.

    • gk99
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      142 years ago

      Who needs lobbying when you can just collect blackmail data on politicians because they willingly install your app?

      • jrs100000
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        12 years ago

        I doubt many national level politicians run their campaign accounts on their personal phones. In fact, I bet theres only one who does that.

  • @Shan@lemmy.world
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    42 years ago

    This is also evidence that bluesky is going to Google+ themselves out of a market share by slow rolling so much.

  • @Shan@lemmy.world
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    22 years ago

    Wild that people just don’t mind being exploited by a social network like that.

    • @Salvo@aussie.zone
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      22 years ago

      The majority are either commercial accounts and “influencers” or placeholder accounts for Instagram users.

      There have already been cases of people who never even downloaded the app being recommended to other people because they have an Instagram account.