In some of the music communities I’m in the content creators are already telling their userbase to go follow them on threads. They’re all talking about some kind of beef between Elon and Mark and the possibility of a boxing match… Mark was right to call the people he’s leaching off of fucking idiots.
I was always taught to keep my real life off the internet so my thoughts on privacy as it pertains to the Internet largely are irrelevant. They’re going to profile my online persona; not me, the real human being behind the keyboard.
Of course part of that includes not giving my real name even if they ask, and not using apps that are really egregious in the data they collect (like with the app permissions Threads requires).
I am for data collection to a certain degree. Using it to target ads may be kinda cringe, but I don’t see it as evil. Collecting usage data to improve the thing I am using is also okay. The data I don’t want collected is, like, my name. My address. My phone number. My bank info. Etc.