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Meta Threads: why I think they don't care if you use it (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So this has been going around my head for a while now: What if they do not care about their users per se but want the few users they get to exploit the federation to shamelessly crawl the fediverse?

I mean... they get enough users that will subscribe to enough of the fediverse to make instances of every shape and size proactively deliver them our post and interaction data with free shipping, right?

So is defederating in the end not only a prevention against company controlled content that might flood the fediverse, but a measure to protect the users on the fediverse right now from ending up in Meta's databases just in the same way they would if they just had used facebook in the first place?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought you could block defederated domains from making public API calls, though maybe they is a step done outside of ActivityPub.

The point Is if you’re wanting to Defedrate from Threads from a privacy perspective you’re achieving nothing

I think people need to stop thinking privacy is a thing with a public service like this. It's not. All we'd get is making Thread crappier if they had this ghost version of all Federverse accounts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah absolutely, I think people really need to understand that Meta won't be the last to try to integrate with the Fediverse, as it grows it's unfortunately unstoppable that ad companies (as well as more malicious actors) will start harvesting as much useful user data as they can

People need to be more careful with what they post as even small things like who has upvoted/downvoted a comment is viewable