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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • OK. Personally, I’m quite interested in it from the opposite point of view. I’m working with a large public body in the UK, who currently use Twitter and I’m attempting to get them interested in setting up their own Mastodon instance as an alternative. (Twitter embeds don’t work on their public websites any more).

    Having the potential ability to reach Threads users is certainly helping me persuade them about thinking about the move to Mastodon - and not Threads.


  • It’s a bit of polemic that suggests that the main reason for blocking Threads is that is full off appalling hateful content. I haven’t used Threads since in initially signing up, so I had a quick look and it wasn’t particularly toxic, as far as I can see. If it is - and that content comes across, that is of course good reason for instances to block it - and I’m sure they will. Meanwhile I was amused to see on Threads the same debate been handled from the opposite direction:








  • No, the article is clear evidence that they are imperfect - not that they don’t generally care about user privacy. In general the work they have done on privacy has been pretty good. Apple mandating end-to-end encryption might be something that they sholuld have done - and that’s a reasonable criticism, but it looks like it is possible for individual app makers to encrypt their notifications: . There’s syill the metadata, of course.

    If I am being paid to shill for Apple they are being particularly tardy with their payments. But to answer your question, no - I’m a user who is privacy conscious and thinks Apple does a reasonable job.

    I am, however always interested in knowing about where they are falling down so I can mitigate. General handy wavy accusations don’t really help me practically - or indeed anyone.