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Please defederate from threads.net (aussie.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by eatham@aussie.zone to c/meta@aussie.zone

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Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

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[-] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 7 points 11 months ago

Turns out I was wrong about the tracking and advertising they absolutely could do it and they absolutely will:

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111585528118111249

They could send ads masquerading as posts/comments and track you using images (since they are served from Meta's servers similarly to how tracking works with images in emails

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 7 points 11 months ago

I didn't think of that, if you federate then you essentially become a publisher of their ads and tracking. Ty for the link.

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