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Various challenges that Meta/Threads may face, according to Facebook's ex-Chief Security Officer (cybervillains.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some insights from Alex Stamos that I found quite interesting.

TL:DR;

He predicts the challenges will be as follows:

Content Moderation: Enforcing actor and behavior-based content moderation will be difficult in the federated environment. The lack of metadata available in Federation makes it harder to stop spammers, troll farms, and abusers.
Privacy Obligations: With Threads content being pulled down and cached by other servers, it becomes challenging to comply with right-to-data-deletion requirements, such as those imposed by GDPR. The Fediverse lacks mechanisms to enforce content deletion.
Competing with Other Platforms: Meta may face difficulties in competing and reaching feature-parity with platforms like TikTok and Twitter while being bound by the feature set of ActivityPub.

Thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From what little I've seen of threads after its rollout, no, I really can't say I'd be looking forward to it. Almost every comment I read here is interesting and civil, and meta's clientele don't tend to have a lot of overlap with "people I want near me." Threads is only a few days old, but initially looks no different and I just don't want that kind of bullshit back in my life. I forgot what it was like without it.

If it were up to me, honestly? What I would like when meta intentionally or not eventually begins acting unstable around non-meta instances, is for that to be their problem. I would like the fediverse as it is to focus on itself and its own business and bugs instead of acting as Meta's nanny the way XMPP did, and if they have problems seeing the rest of our content and federating their subscription-only metaflorps, they are able to join us where they'll be more free anyway.