 Please repost on #Threads... Open Invitation from Mastodon So you've joined Mark Zuckerberg's new app that uploads your entire phone. That's cool. Have fun. You may have heard of Mastodon. We are something different. A little more complicated and a lot more egalitarian. No billionaires sucking up your financial and health info here. Just good honest friendly human engagement. If you grow tired of vacuous celebrity posters, and algorithm selected content, give https://spreadmastodon.org/ a try. 16 comments
@mastodonmigration I'm on threads. I follow about 250 people, mostly journalists, politicians, lawyers and that is who I see in my feed. @mastodonmigration Given Spread Mastodon just takes everyone to m.s, is that a great resource for newbies? If it actually spread load across multiple servers it'd be worth endorsing but AFAIK it's in the "Might come soon" bucket?  @mastodonmigration probably the only thing I'll ever post on Threads. I'm not for a totally spying, half-baked Twitter clone @mastodonmigration are you sure you want to describe mastodon as complicated in the same sentence where you use a six syllable word to describe its merits? This isn’t entirely snark. Egalitarian and vacuous may be words that are a bit out of reach of many in your target audience. @Cassandra Indeed. Hoping the flock goes forth and spreads the word of Mastodon. Re “Zuckerberg's new app that uploads your entire phone.” Please explain what you mean by this claim. I just looked at Threads app permissions on my phone, and Android says “No permissions granted.” @ColinOatley @mastodonmigration Threads uploads a tonne of permissions on iOS (not entirely sure how it works on iOS; does it prompt for some of the more invasive permissions these days?). On Android, there's far less permissions, however. Don't forget though, on either platform, the data you enter is being sucked into Meta's worrying advertising platform.  @mastodonmigration @jeff The “enhance” button on the Home Screen drops you on a page where you have no option but to log in. This is user hostile. Third party apps should be step 1, not step 5. I wouldn’t wish the Mastodon default apps on my worst enemies.  @mastodonmigration That's WAY too preachy... how about something very short instead. Creeped out by THIS? Real talk: lots of people like vacuous celebrity chatter. *I* like vacuous celebrity chatter. Nothing wrong with that! |
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