The way we socialise has changed to the point where it’s normal to talk to people over text chat. This leaves a footprint that talking face to face with someone does not.

In addition to other privacy concerns, I don’t want things I say that I would’ve gotten away with had I spoken it to my friends in real life, to come back and haunt me, either by a platform having a massive data breach, or it being used as evidence in a legal case against me.

On that last point, I’m not using chat services to organise crime, but taken out of context, any message I send can paint a picture that I’m an awful person and change some jury’s opinion of me. This isn’t something I want to think about before sharing a dank meme to a friend on discord.

Until we get AI that mimics the layers

I believe there is still a major court case underway to decide if AI trained on copyrighted data makes it’s derivative works copyrighted too.

It’s an important court battle because it will set a precedent for every other AI related case for all the other AI companies

Royalties every time you use a line from a Disney musical in spoken conversation

Thank you for sharing the lies that trump supporters tell themselves. I think you’re getting downvoted because you forgot the /s

Every panel is flawed

People don’t walk that closely together

People don’t bike that closely together

Only a double decker bus could fit that many people without cramming people in like sardines

Moving cars should obey a safe following distance, so unless traffic is gridlocked, they shouldn’t be that close either

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You can change which Bluetooth audio protocol is being used in the developer options

Search up how to enable developer options on Android. It’s almost always from tapping the build number a certain number of times

That actively works against the cause because it would do so much harm to the local ecosystems

I agree that fediverse is only a few million. But the fediverse is also highly populated with refugees from twitter and reddit at the moment, who just want another stable and popular social platform similar to what they’ve always used.

If anything, the fediverse will have people with stronger opinions: either they’re willing to change social media because of a couple bad changes (and aren’t too attached to the fediverse), or they’re hardcore fediverse fans who are less likely to move to threads than your average twitter user.

If we assume it to be a 50% split, then meta has a chance at stealing half the fediverse by promising a larger user base, thus more content, but on the false premise that Threads will be backwards compatible with the fediverse forever.