• Swictor@mander.xyz
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        1 year ago

        It was great for artists and scientists. My twitter feed was mainly filled with paleoartists and paleontologists bickering about the fullness of t rex lips and I sorely miss it.

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        1 year ago

        It’s because you don’t idolize celebrities and other famous figures enough to know what they do daily.

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          1 year ago

          Garbage in, garbage out. I use(d) Twitter to follow a bunch of high profile Machine Learning and Software Engineering professionals, and my (non algorithmic) feed was rather useful and informative.

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          There were a lot more people on Twitter than pop culture celebrities.

          In pretty much any field you can think of, some of its leading figures would be on there. Economics, urbanism, tech, astronomy, game developers, journalists, fan communities of essentially any creative work, communities for marginalized identities, pretty much any interest was well-represented there.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly if you’re using Lemmy all this information is already publicly accessible, any public forum isnt privacy friendly

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        1 year ago

        I’m not talking about the public stuff, because that’s not where the money is for Meta. Here is the stuff the Thread app collects

        Now juxtapose that with what the Lemmy app collects.

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          1 year ago

          Sorry misunderstood your comment, yeah Threads/Meta is god awful for collecting data wouldn’t want to touch them personally

          There definitely is money in it for Meta though, just yesterday there was quite a popular post showing the types of data that is available to both users and instance owners. If one wanted to they could use things such as your upvotes and down votes to build a sort of profile about you, your political affiliations, interests etc

          Meta isn’t just a problem, ad companies can easily set up an instance to start collecting data from other servers

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    1 year ago

    I’m avoiding it because I have Meta’s entire network blocked at my router. 😄