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Im someone who doesn’t have a Facebook account for years, and because I still have the same phone number I had back when I deleted my account I can’t even create a new one. But I still want to check it out when it comes out in the EU.

Just to see what it is like. I will probably not use it, because the lack of proper chronological feed irks me, but as an iOS developer I want to check out new apps all the time to see if they do anything different.

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As soon as you do, you will accept (and can not change your mind later) the new terms of service (and privacy policy, that is: what this post is about) which also are designed to prohibit you from developing an alternative app.

Just look at screenshots or videos of how it works to satisfy your curiosity.

Are you suggesting that the Terms of Service you sign when you create an account bars you from ever creating a competitor app?

That sounds like it would not hold up in court. It would be as if Threads could be shut down if a single person on the team had once made a Twitter account.

Twitter doesn't have that provision. Most of the upstart competitors do.

Whether it will hold up in court doesn't really matter if you're dealing with a company that recently had a valuation of greater than $1 trillion who really just wants to make its smaller competitor go away.

Why so much FOMO about a shitty company doing the same thing they do every other day?

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