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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 17:39:30 JST Aral Balkan

   Instead of asking people why they’re not welcoming a surveillance capitalist like Meta with open arms maybe ask yourself why you are.

   #meta #threads #mastodon #fediverse #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 17:55:20 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Itanium Thom

     @thomholwerda This is what mainstreaming corporate social media does – it’s as much about what you legitimise as it is about who you marginalise.

   • Itanium Thom (thomholwerda@exquisite.social)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 17:55:21 JST Itanium Thom

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     @aral Especially one that offers refuge to dangerous nazis like Libs of TikTok.

     Being painted as the crazy ones for opposing Facebook feels like we're in the fucking Twilight Zone. Pure insanity.

   • Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹 (anibyl@mas.to)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 18:44:28 JST Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹

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     @aral What if people on threads realize that they can continue having conversations with the same folks but from a platform that doesn't have targeted promotions, ads, or whatever they came up with there? I think having this option is pretty nice, as well as being able to follow certain accounts on threads. Scraping data from the fedi is already possible, you don't need a protocol integration for that.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 18:44:28 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹

     @Anibyl I guess the folks at trillion-dollar corporation Meta were too stupid to consider that and are making one huge mistake. Ssshh, no one tell them.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 18:45:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Dean Lewis🧋
     • Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹

     @dean @Anibyl *smh*

   • Dean Lewis🧋 (dean@theblower.au)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 18:45:09 JST Dean Lewis🧋

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     • Sieva 🚴🚇🏙️🌹

     @Anibyl @aral Threads has no ads

     If Threads doesn't want to be blocked as an instance in itself, it needs to aim high. It does seem to be