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And what if I don't want to be followed from Meta?
Don't post on the internet. If you think Meta doesn't also crawl the web the old school way like Google also does to train AI and such, you're seriously out of touch with reality.
normie centrist take. support privacy oriented organizations and politicians. ask your instance to block threads and if they don’t, move to one that works for you and your safety. giving up and being okay with billionaires playing fuck-all with your data at no cost is playing right into their hands.
Giving them your own data legally and that they illegally fetch your data is not same.
Crawling the web isn't illegal. Google wouldn't exist if it was.
So why the New York Times sued OpenAI? There are multiple cases regarding this. Why do online and public platforms feel entitled to sue AI companies (according to you)?
If OpenAI and NYT were 2 news sites in the fediverse and had the ability to share their news with each other; I'm sure NYT couldn't file such a lawsuit.
Did they win? Simply suing isn't the same as being right.
Is it wrong to get Author's Guild lawsuit vibes with the NYT vs. OpenAI stuff? Seems similar.
That's the difference I'm trying to explain. If you give them, you have no right. If they do it themselves, then you can at least sue.
It's like I stop locking my door because there's a chance burglars could break into my house and steal things at any time.
Well, the good news is that according to this list, your instance already blocks Threads.
Is there any way for me to know if a Kbin instance also blocked Threads?
You could try to follow a user from threads, such as @mosseri. I guess that won't be possible from instances where threads is defederated.
Well, if you're right, Kbin looks to not have defederated Threads
Maybe you have blocked Threads yourself? I'm not sure if Kbin even supports that (it's possible on Mastodon and Pixelfed), but I can see Mosseri's account just fine from my end!
Oh, I tried to say that I can see and even follow this Threads account, so probably Kbin is still federated! Sorry if it wasn't clear
Oops, you're perfectly clear - I'm just tired and misread. Yes, Kbin is still federated with Threads indeed. :)
am block threads and still see
We held a vote
just post as unlisted like you could from the start?
Please explain. Unlisted as in without a username?
no there are levels of privacy when you make a post on mastodon. public, unlisted, followers only, and only people mentioned.
unlisted opts out of discovery like the public timelines