Are we going to block Meta’s Threads.net? I get it if people want to keep things open. However, Meta is a proven bad actor. They claim they didn’t put in ActivityPub because it was too complicated to get it done at launch, and they can’t get EU approval of their service because of the rampant and invasive data they gather. IMHO, they are going to attempt to muscle the fediverse out of the equation.

  • oatscoop@midwest.socialEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The privacy concerns immediately fall apart when you realize Meta doesn’t have to have their brand-name service to get access to everything going across ActivityPub.

    There’s far less incentive to scrape that content when you remove the ability to interact with and find it through Threads. It’s unlikely facebook itself will be combing though lemmy instances looking for quality content to rip off “share” – it will be the users.

    Defederation creates a far higher barrier for Thread users to find and engage with posts on the wider lemmy ActivityPub network, which means far less of the fediverse’s content being used for Meta’s benefit.