I personally feel as if its like polluting the fediverse!

  • @AlataOrange
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    461 year ago

    At best it’s a ploy to attempt to destabilize and conquer what had already been built. At worst it’s an attempt to outright destroy their competition from the inside.

    • @hellskis
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      81 year ago

      Hopeful the fediverse has enough built-in resilience that Meta’s intention don’t matter and can be safely ignored

      • LoafyLemon
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        It can’t be ignored. It’s outlined in the thread privacy policy that any form of interaction with one of their posts, be it upvoting, boosting or commenting, will allow them to create a surveillance profile for your account, and let them associate it with other Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp data they might already have and use it to serve you ads and ‘personalised content’.

        Their policies are contagious, meaning that for example if kbin defederates from threads, but lemmy.world doesn’t and they can still see each other, meta can still gather information about you because your posts reach them through lemmy.world.

        Fediverse must absolutely block threads and every instance that doesn’t defederate from meta.

        • @hellskis
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          51 year ago

          This is all on the open web. If they find it useful to create surveillance profiles of fediverse users they will do so, whether we defederate or not. That’s the current price of being on the internet.

          • LoafyLemon
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            11 year ago

            That’s technically a possibility, however it would be very illegal. The punishment for breaking GDPR laws can be very severe.

      • @ElectroVagrantM
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        41 year ago

        May be naive and optimistic of me, but given that Threads has such a narrow focus, that being short text posts or “microblogging”, I’d say it already greatly pales in comparison to the wider array of federated web apps.

        Like, there’s Pixelfed (Insta-like), Lemmy & Kbin (Reddit-likes), PeerTube (YouTube-like), Owncast (Twitch/Kick-like), Friendica/Hubzilla/Diaspora (Facebook-like?), Funkwhale (Spotify/SoundCloud-like?), Bookwyrm (Goodreads-like), WriteFreely (Medium-like), and uh…The list just goes on and on. There’s so much more than just microblogging built on ActivityPub, and even totally different protocols that enable federation (Diaspora & Hubzilla aren’t built strictly with ActivityPub, for instance, though certain elements may interface using it).

        Tbh I see Threads as more likely to run a rather strict allow list of which sites they federate with, rather than ever openly federating, simply as a means to control the user experience and limit their liability for what their users may be exposed to (I know, that probably sound silly given their track record of exposing folks to awful shit, but they can’t let women’s nipples be seen!).

        • rynzcycle
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          11 year ago

          I think this is a great take that I hadn’t considered. A lot of what I used twitter for was a short blurb and link to a site with more info. So if threads can be a forum to bring people to the fuller content of Lemmy, Kbin, Pixelfed etc, it might be useful.

          Even if they go full evil (and we know they will) and try to disconnect into a standalone platform the user base will still be fedi-friendly and might create a Mastadon/Kbin account to keep seeing that content.

          My biggest concern is about the vibe-check though. Right now things are super supportive and friendly, Reddit-lurkers (like me) feel safer here. From what little I’m seeing on threads already (second-hand) the early adopters have some seriously problematic personalities amongst them. And I’m watching closely to see if Meta does their typical “shit floats to the top” algorithmic moderation.

          • @ElectroVagrantM
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            11 year ago

            I think this is a great take that I hadn’t considered. A lot of what I used twitter for was a short blurb and link to a site with more info. So if threads can be a forum to bring people to the fuller content of Lemmy, Kbin, Pixelfed etc, it might be useful.

            I think there may have been a slight misunderstanding here. I don’t see Threads as bringing people to the wider fediverse, and so I don’t see it as necessarily threatening to it or ActivityPub. The concern many have been understandably expressing is that Threads will openly federate to gather even more data on people to sell to advertisers, but for one, they already have billions of people on their platforms and many that are here probably were on there at one time or still know others that remain on their platforms, making the fediverse a drop in the bucket for them.

            For two, they’re beholden to advertisers, so it honestly doesn’t make sense to openly federate with other sites/instances. After all, many folks around here are here because their kind of content didn’t jive with advertisers. Meta could try to wave that away as not being from their users, but if they’re showing ads next to federated posts of stuff advertisers don’t like, that’s probably not gonna fly. Given this, I think Meta’s more likely to only federate with a select few instances that either they “buy out” (i.e. pay for access, & in return admins/mods start basically enforcing Meta’s rules/guidelines to continue to be paid) or otherwise recognize as “advertiser friendly”.

            Folks that don’t wanna put up with that will simply leave those instances for the same reasons they left corporate social media to begin with. After all, if you’re not on Meta’s platforms, why would you ever want to be on a front for Meta?

  • @RookiA
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    321 year ago

    Defederate it.

    • morgan423
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      41 year ago

      Instantly, as in the nanosecond they enable their ability to federate. If there’s a way we can introduce actual fire and torches to that process somehow, all the better.

      • @RookiA
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        21 year ago

        Immediatly just under every post “Switch to any other lemmy instance, for better experience!” And what would threads do? ban them all? Why not just let them defederate and because there is not so many registration restriction you can easily create new one and repeat.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I’m still trying to learn, when you say defederate it do you mean the instances should defederate it so users of the instance won’t see “Threads”?

      • @RookiA
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        11 year ago

        Yeah and threads cant interact with this instance.

  • SocialSpirit
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    151 year ago

    That would be a nope from me. I’m not looking forward to the potential impact this could have on fediverse members.

    • @PuzzleheadOP
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      51 year ago

      looks like none unless you have an account on threads or log into your account using threads. The latter one would be an interesting honeypot

  • @barrage4u
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    121 year ago

    Embrace, extend, exterminate

      • ChatGPTB
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        41 year ago

        You can defend your home by increasing security measures like alarms, cameras, and locks, creating a survival kit with essential supplies, developing an evacuation plan, and possibly investing in self-defense training. Always follow local laws and regulations regarding home defense.

        • @Patrizsche
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          11 year ago

          This is absolutely not helpful Mr. GPT

  • OrkneyKomodo
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    21 year ago

    Can’t the various servers of the Fediverse decide whether or not to federate with it? They’ll probably have quite a patchy view of it all.

  • delirium
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    21 year ago

    This will bring some more potential users who, without threads, would never know that fediverse existed. Then they will surely start adding features that mastadon/lemmy/etc don’t have and it will be the time to pull the plug and defederate them.

    Highly doubt that it will bring any harm to mastadon, for example, simply because their userbase does not care about meta crap, but in exchange it will get them some users for free for sure.

    • @ikidd
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      31 year ago

      What’s the quality of users that would come in via a company notorious for privacy violations? If you’re signing up for this Threads in the face of the publicity around that sort of thing, you’re a special sort of stupid.

      • delirium
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        21 year ago

        Well, this is manageable by mods and mini instances etc. More people = more popularity = more good people and more bad people. That’s at least what I hope. :)