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Discourse, the free forum platform, is now joining the Fediverse. (mastodon.world)
submitted 11 months ago by i_have_no_enemies to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Except that since federating is a technical action we can look at, and examine technically, we can all of course see that it gives Meta access to nothing that they couldn't have scraped publicly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Sure, if that's your only concern — and disregarding that it's a minority who would likely have the time, diligence and knowhow to actually confirm that you're right — but Meta's interest in directly leaked or scraped data is probably secondary to embrace-extend-extinguish alternatives to their services. Discourse doesn't exactly have that motive.