#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.
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.