This shouldn’t come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.

  • @Ottomateeverything
    3•1 year ago

    Meta says, for Threads to federate, they access the same data any instance does when it federates.

    Okay, but like, I don’t want Meta consuming that data? At least if they wanted to scrape through reddit to put that together, they’d be going out of their way. This data is now just coming through the same API “for free”.

    If I didn’t mind Meta scraping through all this, why wouldn’t I just use Threads?

    This is exactly the kind of shit that pushed me here - I don’t want Meta sifting through all my shit. Its unlikely that some other instance host is going to start building psychological advertising profiles on me and sell it to the highest bidder. But you bet your ass Meta will try.

    • JoYoEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      If I didn’t mind Meta scraping through all this, why wouldn’t I just use Threads?

      I’m curious what precautions you have taken to prevent web scraping of your posts.

      • pewter
        5•1 year ago

        Probably none. For all he knows Meta already owns a couple small instances.

        • JoYoEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          They admitted to federating for research back around bluesky’s announcement.

          If you don’t want your data scraped you’ll need to use e2ee.