<story><title>Red flags in the Threads privacy policy</title><url>https://qz.com/threads-meta-delayed-launch-eu-privacy-policy-concerns-1850609340</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twobitshifter</author><text>If your problem is with the ownership of Twitter, I don’t understand why you would run from the arms of one wannabe cage-fighter into another’s.&lt;p&gt;If your problem is with ethics, FB isn’t a beacon of good behavior.&lt;p&gt;If your problem is getting rate-limited or losing your blue checkmark, I guess go wild, but you probably already loved Twitter too much to leave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>threeseed</author><text>No my problem with Twitter is that the quality of the discourse is poor and getting worse every day.&lt;p&gt;Which is a direct result of Musk deciding to prioritise blue check comments over others. If you&amp;#x27;re having to pay to have people listen to you then that means you typically don&amp;#x27;t have something worth saying.&lt;p&gt;And we see this manifest in many ways e.g. pages of laughing emojis in response to a tweet.</text></comment>
<story><title>Red flags in the Threads privacy policy</title><url>https://qz.com/threads-meta-delayed-launch-eu-privacy-policy-concerns-1850609340</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>twobitshifter</author><text>If your problem is with the ownership of Twitter, I don’t understand why you would run from the arms of one wannabe cage-fighter into another’s.&lt;p&gt;If your problem is with ethics, FB isn’t a beacon of good behavior.&lt;p&gt;If your problem is getting rate-limited or losing your blue checkmark, I guess go wild, but you probably already loved Twitter too much to leave.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tqi</author><text>I think we spend too much time and mental energy questioning other people&amp;#x27;s reasons for how they spend their free time.</text></comment>