The stat of real interest(and, presumably, the one less likely to be provided unless it’s absurdly favorable) is the breakdown between people sufficiently inspired by facebook-twitter to actually join up with Zuck and people who have already agreed to some suitably Faustian ToS to be on instagram and faced essentially zero further costs in seeing what the new thing is.
30 million twitter refugees is a nontrivial shift; getting 1.5% of instagram user at least marginally interested is less exciting; not clear from the outside how much is the former and how much is the latter.
I guess you mean me? As it happens I am a developer dealing with those things in the EU, China and to a lesser extent India. Admittedly I deal more with the technical side of things. If have a legal question Ihave to go all the way to the office opposite mine and ask my boss, an LLM specialized in EU privacy law.
Anyway I don’t think we disagree all that much. I am just not sure what you are trying to tell me.
I love that feature of the DuckDuckGo browser. Every now and then I check on it, and it’s astonishing a) what info apps are attempting to pump out of my phone, and b) which apps.
No, I was speaking generally. People often wonder why things are incomplete or buggy and ask questions like “how could they ship this?”. Missing an obvious feature like GDPR compliance is possibly part of that same question. That’s what I was speculating, anyway.
I was responding to the idea that GDPR shouldn’t have been hard to comply with initially because Facebook is a big company. That’s how I interpreted what you said. Forgive me if that was incorrect, I was speaking to a more general audience (not assuming anything about you) as to why even big companies seemingly release incomplete or flawed software.
i once flagged a post by someone who said in clear and uncertain terms, yes, he absolutely wanted to shoot protestors in the head – and facebook told me it didn’t violate community standards.
maybe i should have said the protestors were canadian?
he’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn’t seem to be livin’ until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white,
The app definitely needs some tweaking to allow people to use it better. (Like letting you see only people you follow easily) But I think it’s winning because of two things:
First it has a critical mass of people you like and care about on there (because it brought them over from instagram). That’s a hurdle most alternatives to Twitter just haven’t been able to do. And in the end the value of social media is in the users. AOC is on there (and lots of other politicians). Celebrities are on there. Comedians are on there. And your friends are probably on there.
Second, this:
No ability to link yet. And now that you mention it, it only works on mobile devices. So screenshot is the only way to preserve stuff it seems? For now anyway.
Looks like links work, but doesn’t one box (yet). Got that from a web site linking their threads account, so you don’t need an app to read. No clue if you can get links from the app, never signing up.
