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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[–] SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Comment stolen from user "copygirl" from blahaj.zone:

Looks like they'll be harvesting your data if you follow anyone from Threads, maybe even injecting ads. Unsure what happens to the data of people that get followed by a Threads user. A large part of the fediverse is here precisely because they want to escape corporate meddling, data-hoarding, advertising and other anti-user malpractices. There's a number of people talking about this, here's a recent post that highlights some of the things from their TOS.

[–] chriscz@iusearchlinux.fyi 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anyone can collect the data anyway, and I'm sure at least one person out there is already harvesting our Fediverse data.

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

There's a big difference between some random person and Meta collecting the data.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Meta can collect every scrap of Lemmy right now

Edit: downvote for what? My comment is true

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Everything is public on fedi (if we're talking about communities alike), so any bot can and is already scrapping everything through regular HTTP. You must be extremely ignorant to think otherwise.

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