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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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That's it. It's just the fastest springboard this garbage company had to get yet another social media platform out the door when they sensed blood in the water.

Edit: This is a response to people who think FB users will somehow discover the fediverse and be converted by this action. They won't.

Or that FB has noble goals in choosing AP or will somehow be forced to be better. They won't.

It's just good software.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that many people worry about what Meta might be able to do wih all the data that they can access, and we don't know what they will do with it. We don't know what a Mastodon instance admin might do with the data either, but Meta has much more resources to use them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And what stops meta from getting your data now?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For me, it's not so much about what they can do now, but what they will do in the future.

I'm not a very technical person (at least in this field). But I'm infinitely distrustful of anything Meta does and I consider it hubris if we think we're safe with the implementations we have now. They're talented and ruthless at what they do; making money out of you, whether you want to or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They already have it and it's called browser fingerprinting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah if they wanted to scrape the fediverse it wouldn't be hard for them, and threads wouldn't even be necessary to do that