Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net"

If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net".

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[–] corbin@infosec.pub 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Public Mastodon posts are already indexed by search engines.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Indexing by search engines and what Meta harvests are astronomically different - I fail to see your point.

[–] corbin@infosec.pub 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If I am on Mastodon, there is nothing that Threads can collect from me that they can not get already. My posts are public, Meta or anyone else doesn’t need permission to look at them.

The only risk is if I am sending direct messages to someone on Threads from Mastodon, then obviously Meta has a copy. ActivityPub is not E2E encrypted, you shouldn’t be using it for private communication at all, the threat model is the same between Threads and any other Mastodon server.

[–] Retrograde@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Alright, fair enough, but why would anyone allow meta even an inch of space into a 'free' platform? Have you seen the numerous ( and to be fair, much better articulated) comments on this very thread concerning "EEE"? Don't you think it's alarming how many people support Meta joining?

I'm thinking of it from a grand scale: Folks in this thread are essentially saying "awe, c'mon, it's probably okay if Zuck's mega-corp puts it's foot in the door of a burgeoning federated forum community; what could go wrong?"

Hey- let's talk in five years and see what happens- yeah?

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 10 months ago

Alright, fair enough, but why would anyone allow meta even an inch of space into a 'free' platform?

It's an open protocol, they can join if they want. That's kinda the point of being an open protocol, anyone willing to implement it just can.

I imagine that if tomorrow Meta decides to run a free email service ala Hotmail or Gmail you'd be demanding that they will destroy email everywhere if they aren't put on every black hole list immediately?