Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
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Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
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Re: Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
#2"Privacy" and "fediverse" are like water and oil: they don't mix.
Meta would have no more (extra) access to Fedi posts than an large Mastodon instance like Mastodon.social would have.
Re: Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
#3"Decentralized access for everyone, unless it gets popular enough that somebody actually wants to interop with it"
I understand the Meta hate, but joining a very explicitly public and intentionally republishable service and then being unhappy that your data is public and intentionally republishable is bizarre to me.
Re: Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
#4Hunting down your personal details and publishing them is a crime¹, isn't it?
1 - I mean on the US where Meta really cares about. It's probably one on most countries where Meta has revenue, but that won't send anybody to jail.
Re: Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
#5What an asinine concern. Don’t want your data on threads? Don’t use threads.
Re: Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
#6"Decentralized access for everyone, unless it gets popular enough that somebody actually wants to interop with it" I understand the Meta hate, but joining a very explicitly public and intentionally republishable service and then being unhappy that your data is public and intentionally republishable is bizarre to me.
Yeah, this article reads more like a critique of the way ActivityPub and Mastodon work. None of this is particular to Meta.
Re: Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
#7The best way to handle it is to make a "minimum viable" account and do absolutely nothing with it, ever, except login and logout annually. Set up a spam filter to trash every single notice from the company.
Re: Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
#8What an asinine concern. Don’t want your data on threads? Don’t use threads.
Isn't the exact concern here that people avoid Meta properties and for that reason chose Mastodon, but now Meta is sucking that data in?
To me that still seems fairplay on a platform that's designed to be open and heralded that way. Not a opinion I hold strongly though.
Re: Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
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Re: Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse
#10not a problem for 99.99 percent of people.