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Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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What data is Facebook "hoovering up" through federation that they don't already have access to?
I have asked this question a dozen times and no one can ever give me a legitimate answer.
It really comes down to whether you believe that Facebook is scraping the entire internet right now or not.
I'd prefer to not directly feed my information into their servers.
It doesn't. They don't need to scrape the entire internet, just ActivityPub.
That's the thing, though, you can't just quote-unquote "scrape activity pub."
You have to pick every single instance. Believe it or not, not all data is just on every single instance. It's usually cached by users connecting with different instances.
Right and if FB wanted to do that it would be well within their capabilities, wouldn't it?
When does the Threads federation begin? I've not yet seen a single message from a Threads user so I imagine this hasn't yet started.
Apparently there are a handful. Notably Mosseri.
Then what's the problem?
That we are federating with Threads and are going to put our information directly into their servers.
But you just said that's not a problem...
Read better please.
Write better please.
Nothing. This is a PR move by meta, nothing more. They are trying to seem "hip" and push their ads.
Meta, Google, MS, OpwnAI, etc gave akeasy scrubbed fediverse. Probably associated accounts to folks real names.
How are they going to push ads?