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[โ€“] meldroc 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I have a request to any mods/admins/instance owners reading this:

You might get some mileage by putting sticky posts up, ideally in as many communities as possible, warning users about using Meta's app. Make it so every time a Meta user comes and checks us out, they're reminded, over and over, that Meta is spying on them. Repetition gets the message into people's brains!

"Did you know Meta's app watches and times your doomscrolling, and phones home to Meta to tell them which stories caught your eye? It records everything you type, even what you go back and delete, and sends that home to Big Brother. Consider using a spyware-free app, here's where you can get them..."

[โ€“] Goudewup 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

What would be the gain of spreading that message to people who are already browsing lemmy rather than Instagram? ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Meta is releasing threads.net which will (eventually) join the Fediverse.

It's a much bigger topic of discussion over on #Mastodon, #Calckey, etc.

[โ€“] AnObscureTenet 2 points 1 year ago

Well, they THINK it will join the Fediverse. There's already a pact between a lot of larger instances to defederate them the moment they appear.

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