This. I don’t need to win, I just want Meta to lose.

They should be? I mean, not just for the crime, but in general privacy should be the default.

Literally all of the major social media platforms are more or less intro to compsci levels of things. I think when I was first learning rails one of the tutorials was how to build a twitter clone. Granted, this is simplifying and there is a lot to be said for scaling and the more esoteric things, but yeah it’s barely about the platform/software.

This is the grossest part. People fawning over Threads as if Facebook and Zuck aren’t just as bad as Elon just far more competent at it.