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Another case for defederating from threads.net (Meta’s Twitter replacement that supports ActivtyPub) (self.technology)
submitted 2 years ago by LargeHardonCollider to c/technology
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There’s been a lot of talk about Meta’s new twitter clone called Threads because it will federate with other ActivityPub apps. I’ve seen several posts about them possibly using the app as a way to embrace, extend, and extinguish ActivityPub.

Another more immediate concern I have is that Meta will now be able to harvest data from users of other ActivityPub social networks like Lemmy and Mastodon. If Alice on Threads follows Bob on Mastodon for example, that means Bob’s mastodon instance will send information about all of Bob’s posts and everyone who interacts with them to Meta so that Alice can see it.

This is a concern specifically with Meta and other big tech companies running ActivityPub-enabled servers, because their primary motive is to harvest user data to use for advertising. The scariest part to me is that users on networks like Mastodon specifically migrated to Mastodon to get away from big tech, and Meta is still able to harvest their data with Threads.

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[–] Boiglenoight 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I don't care about data harvesting. This stuff's public.

What I don't want is my community that I joined to be impacted by a larger community filled with bigots, fascists, the hateful. That's going to be my cue to exit. So I hope that the community I'm a part of values me and others like me more than tolerating the above for the sake of growth or whathaveyou.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Eh any small instance like these aren’t into the growth at all costs thing because we have to shell out of the costs for hosting more content.

So as long as you don’t join a corpo instance you shouldn’t have that issue hopefully.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is from the first few hours of Threads, you're clearly right to be concerned:

and a link, since the embedded images from kbin apparently don't show on lemmy

[–] Boiglenoight 3 points 2 years ago

🎶 who let the trolls in! (Who, who-who-who)🎶