So, correct me if I'm wrong, but Threads, as a federated web app, can get posts from other federated web app instances, and can store them indefinitely, right? Is this going to be a data-collection nightmare?

[–] 0xtero@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Not more than it is now. Everything is already public so if they need it, they've already been collecting it. This doesn't really change anything.

[–] h3ndrik@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

And it's how federation is supposed to work. Either you want to send your content to other instances or you don't. But federation is the wrong tool if you want to stay alone. You can defederate and block them if you don't like their terms.

[–] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Even without federation / specific protocols. You can just take about any sort of content on the internet pretty easily if you wanted to. Search engine crawlers do something similar, otherwise search results would just not work at all.

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 1 points 9 months ago

Honestly. This is a social network platform. Assume all you post and share is being collected via web crawlers and data brokers pulling from the api.

[–] Helmic@hexbear.net 1 points 9 months ago

It aleady has been. Anything, anything publicly posted and available will be harvested by, at a minimum, Google spiders. The only privacy benefits of any site can only be promises that they won't share the information that you don't publicly list.

And even then,.all it takes is the feds raiding a dipshit Kolektiva admin to get that information illegally anyways.

Do not organize serious actions over social media. At most, hold sensitive discussions over private, E2E encrypted chats like Matrix.