Threads usage drops as Meta blocks VPN access in EU::Move comes as Meta tries to avoid violating privacy laws.
As someone who doesn’t use threads, how does it stand up to something like Lemmy or Reddit? I doubt it’s worth using a VPN to use Threads, but that’s just my assumption.
About as well as Twitter does. It’s literally a Twitter clone. Not really good for micro blogging.
I’m in the US, and I hate Meta, so this doesn’t impact me, but can you disable location access on your phone to circumvent this?
Incredible how thirsty europeans for the Zuck are that they bypass good intentioned privacy laws…
Meanwhile I’m so happy being in EU and not having this data-stealer app anywhere in my vicinity for the foreseeable future. Life’s relatively good
Yeah sometimes I’m also glad being an EU citizen.
I still hate the fact that the same people who said that no one is going to adopt a whole new social network in regards to mastodon suddenly changed their minds when the zuck made a worse version of it.
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The marketing of the fediverse is not as good as Zuck’s
Someone needs to piggyback off Metas marketting machine and create a glorified Mastodon instance for Europe called something like OpenThreads. Licence a Mastodon client and customise it to look (and behave) like Threads and federate with Threads.
How do you know it’s the same people?
I follow them on Twitter :/
Is it possible for other apps or sites to block VPN access in this way? I was under the impression (possibly incorrectly) that using one would help to avoid such issues.
BBC iPlayer does this all the time
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