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#Threads is a reminder that a majority of your friends don't know or care about data privacy. They are the audience who will follow their fave celeb/influencer wherever they go.
Which underscores the different crowds on the Fediverse vs Big Tech. Untangling my online presence from places like Meta is difficult because none of my friends want to leave the familiar. Their connections are all there.
I'm literally alone on the Fediverse and I sound like a crazy person when I try to explain why.
To be fair, I have friends and family in the privacy business(?) who have warned us about this for years, and THEY sounded crazy at the time. But Facebook and Twitter made a lot of work and leisure easier, so here we are. Better late than trying to get people to come to my #Thread talk?
Yes, this is why the whole #Twitter saga shook me so much: a real lesson in not just how power and money work (i kind of knew that anyway) but, above all, in what people - the vast majority of people, people as a mass, including many friends, many leading activists- are like. They don’t actually care; they do what is easiest, what everyone else does. It’s all taught me a lot.
@georgettetan I feel your pain. I wish I could ditch the corporate socials but as a #writer they still provide a useful marketing tool.
I've sold books through promotion on #facebook and #twitter. I'm not aware of selling anything due to Mastodon.
That won't stop me staying here as I really enjoy the community and the lack of s*** 
I needed this reminder today. Thanks for this.
@georgettetan You are not alone here 
Dana @georgettetan You're definitely not alone, I have the same experience. I would leave Meta but the place I work at only communicates via Messenger. 
@georgettetan you're not alone in being weirded out about all this. I just reached out to 6 holdouts on Twitter - people I really miss talking to. Love the new friends here. But those 6.. And a couple more..I loved Twitter. I knew it wasn't secure. When I started there 10 years ago it was so tiny and weird. Trading dumb jokes and being weird. Like here is now. I never used my real name for anything questionable on Twitter though, for good reason. Very few people I knew irl on there that I talked to. Some. It's so much better here. Wish I'd have known about this years ago. But I think some just won't come over (yet?) It's a shame.
andrzej@georgettetan@writing.exchange the Fediverse is good for a lot of things, but it's very bad for privacy!
Ster @georgettetan «As the discussions of Meta's new fediverse-compatible Twitter competitor Threads highlight, privacy is one of those areas of the interconnected web of decentralized social networks known as the "fediverse" where change is badly needed»
https://privacy.thenexus.today/fediverse-threat-modeling-privacy-and-meta/
@georgettetan But you are not alone 
@georgettetan Anyone still using facebook or the other abusive social media platforms is suffering from Stockholm Syndrome by now. They've been brainwashed to believe that it's an acceptable trade-off to get their next fix of the addiction that's been engineered for them.
@georgettetan People are exhausted with their day jobs and daily life, they just want a few minutes of mindless scrolling. I think people's dependence on big social media for easy dopamine hits is a symptom of the stresses of late stage capitalism.
It's not their fault, some people are at their limit and just want the easiest most convenient option.
@georgettetan this is why m not too worried about meta corrupting the fediverse. It’s like two groups of people who are completely opposed to each other. I think most people on the fediverse would never consider using a meta product.
@georgettetan I am also the only person in my friend and family circle on the fediverse.
@georgettetan
No one I know in real life is here. Not my friends in info sec. Not my colleagues who do academic work on surveillance capitalism. They are all still on Twitter. I do not understand it. They know better. They just keep saying, "but my network is there."
I have felt significantly less stress and anxiety since I left Twitter last year. The constant ragebaiting and advertising and shitposting... I didn't realize how bad it was for my mental health. I spend a lot of time here, but I don't feel addicted to it like I did Twitter. I will spend time in the mornings and evenings on Mastodon reading, replying, and posting, and then I will go about my day. I don't open my browser every 5 minutes to learn about the latest controversy, the latest argument between two celebrities. I still feel like I am mostly up to speed on important world events, which I didn't want to lose. But I lost most of the commentary that went with it. I don't miss all the "Retweet if you think...!"
@georgettetan That's why when #Malaysians meet each other on Mastodon we're like
@georgettetan I feel you. Now celebs, corps, and media like BFM think they're being 'woke' by leaving Twitter and going to... Threads.
Sigh -_-