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Please defederate from threads.net (aussie.zone)

submitted 9 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 6 points 8 months ago

I posted this link in a reply but I'll put it here just incase. According to this part of the threads TOS by interacting with a threads user they will collect your data and send targeted ads.

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

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 3 points 8 months ago

How are they going to send targeted ads when not using their platform?

[-] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago

They could masquerade them as posts or embed them in posts. They would be able to track your IP address through the images they serve - kind of like email

this post was submitted on 16 Dec 2023

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