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.

  • @Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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    111 year ago

    Can confirm. I don’t really care about internet privacy all that much, though I don’t consider myself average.

    That being said, I refuse to engage with Meta, for no particular reason.

    • @KirbyQK@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Pretty much the same, having reached a certain age before the internet was a thing, all my shit is out there already. I genuinely don’t care if Google has all my info from decades of Gmail, YouTube, googling, Android phones etc etc because they make it convenient for me to use all their products. What I’m not happy to roll with is massively sub par experience due to adds or rage bait curated feeds. So I’m not on Twitter, Insta, FB or anything just because the experience of using it would suck. If they want to track me that’s fine, just don’t be gross about it and don’t get hacked (hoping I don’t jynx myself)

    • @gthutbwdy
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      21 year ago

      It is important for a society to have privacy, not just you as an individual. There are journalists and activist that need privacy for a very good reason.

      “Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” ― Edward Snowden

      • @Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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        31 year ago

        I guess I should clarify that I don’t care about my own internet privacy all that much. Obviously there should be ways to be private if you need to, but I’m not going to bother with them.

        • @gthutbwdy
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          11 year ago

          It is important that you do bother, since the people that need it can’t reach you otherwise while keeping their anonymity.

          • @Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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            11 year ago

            If someone wants to talk to me via email or text, sure. I don’t think those basic services are universally losing privacy any time soon. Lemmy too now, since it’s decentralized.

            But if someone wants to talk to me via a Discord subsitute, I’m not going to bother. Maybe I’m weird, but I don’t feel a moral impetus to download a new app just so I can talk to one particular person in the format they prefer. They don’t have to move to Discord to appease me either, because text and email are suitable substitutes that I’m sure both parties arleady have.

    • @dingus@lemmy.world
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      01 year ago

      The internet was never private. I’m not really sure why people ever thought it was. You can feel free to look through my social media and draw whatever conclusion you wish or collect it and sell it. Why should I care?