I’ve seen so many people that want to defederate from Threads because they’re scared it will get their personal data somehow. Just goes to show that not a lot of people understand how this technology works yet. The only data threads will see is the stuff you post publicly.
Well nothing probably. I think Instagram collects as much as threads does. My point was just that if you’re only on lemmy or mastodon or whatever, you won’t have to worry about the data they’re collecting from their own users.
The truly toxic idea, though, is that Mastodon instances should not only refuse to federate with Threads, but they should refuse to federate with other servers that do federate with Threads.
yep. The #Fediblock idea of “i don’t care if they are nice people, they don’t block the mean people” is crazy. At that point why not just set up your own PHPbb?
Look at the Logo, take a look at the Startpage. Then tell me that ANYTHING on that page should be taken seriously. Do you think that en.uncyclopedia.co should be taken seriously just because its a wiki?
I have to regretfully agree. I find this continuing assertion that defederating Meta properties will somehow dramatically harm the Fediverse to be unfounded. I have not yet encountered any convincing argument for how defederating Threads is any kind of suicide whatsoever. We have no Threads now, and seem to be doing quite well.
Is Beehaw still doing fine, yes? They defederated rather harshly, in a far more delicate time than now.
Yeah we’d definitely be fine not federating and just continuing as normal, the question is whether potentially federation with meta would be a net gain or loss. Honestly it’s nearly impossible to tell without it actually happening
To be honest I think defederating meta products is stupid, ik meta exploits it’s users and everything but the fact is defederating only makes mastodon worse, and adds another hurdle to more users making the switch
“if I can’t follow any of the accounts follow on threads why would I switch to mastodon or any other instance.”
Really meta doesn’t give a shit about mastodon, It really doesn’t pose a threat sure they can catalog or scrape your posts for user info, but their energy is going to be focused on their users who use web or especially the phone app.
Overaction or not, putting distance between your platform and Meta is just the better choice, on principle alone. They have proved their intent time and time again, there’s no reason to willingly associate with them.
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