Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you’re a server admin, please defederate Meta’s domain “threads.net

If you don’t run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate “threads.net”.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Comment stolen from user “copygirl” from blahaj.zone:

    Looks like they’ll be harvesting your data if you follow anyone from Threads, maybe even injecting ads. Unsure what happens to the data of people that get followed by a Threads user. A large part of the fediverse is here precisely because they want to escape corporate meddling, data-hoarding, advertising and other anti-user malpractices. There’s a number of people talking about this, here’s a recent post that highlights some of the things from their TOS.

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      9 months ago

      It’s not as if something was preventing them from

      data-hoarding

      and

      harvesting your data

      here anyway.

      So that part about being followed by a Threads user is just a bit stupid.

      The danger is in them becoming an integral part of the network where people don’t bother to register at a normal instance, and then Meta pulling out and the network remaining half-dead.

    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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      9 months ago

      How can they possibly steal any data other than what you publicly shared on the internet?

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      9 months ago

      Anyone can collect the data anyway, and I’m sure at least one person out there is already harvesting our Fediverse data.

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          9 months ago

          Everything is public on fedi (if we’re talking about communities alike), so any bot can and is already scrapping everything through regular HTTP. You must be extremely ignorant to think otherwise.