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  • I kept a blog for ten years, I didn’t write down my health info, my contact info, and my financial info on it.

    That was my point. It isn’t that Mastodon is the alternative to Threads, it’s just an alternative. The are plenty of systems of sharing short status updates with people that won’t involve as many privacy threats.

    And attention is being paid to Threads because yes, the access to health info is unusal. Other social media apps haven’t asked for that unless they were specifically fitness apps.

    Instagram also collects health info, which it has no intrinsic need for. This is important to note because, fundamentally, Threads is Instagram. That’s why it collects the same data.



  • I mean, yeah, but this is also true compared to writing your thoughts down in a paper journal or a self-hosted WordPress blog. Comparing it to Mastodon is only meaningful if you’re specifically evangelizing for Mastodon. You’re preaching to the choir here.

    Your source touches on this, but a more meaningful comparison would be the social networks that are already being used by the same demographic. Is Threads use of data excessive or unusual compared the existing apps from Meta or its direct peers? How does it compare to Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tiktok, Snapchat, etc.? How does it compare to ubiquitous Google apps like YouTube, Gmail, Chrome, etc?

    Yeah, excessive tracking is Not Good, but it’s nowhere near unique to Threads.

    The cybersecurity startup the parent article is built around, Protexxa, have their own Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc. as does its founder and CEO.

    So what’s the point of the article? Why Threads? Why now?