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1. Meta/Facebook has a horrific track record on human rights: - https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence - https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview 2. Meta/Facebook is trying to join the Fediverse. We need to defederate them. 3. If you're a server admin, please defederate Meta's domain "threads.net" (here's how on Mastodon https://fedi.tips/how-to-defederate-fediblock-a-server-on-mastodon/) 4. If you don't run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate "threads.net". Your admin is listed on your server website's About page.

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”.

  • SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    106·
    1 year ago

    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.fyiEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

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

        • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          1 year ago

          Who says that Meta is not already harvesting our data? Lemmy really is about moving control out of corporate hands and decentralisation advantages, but profiling is insanely easy on the Fediverse, and it really cannot be different because of its inherent interconnectedness. It makes no sense to migrate from conventional social media to Fediverse equivalents if all one cares about is privacy.

        • Mamertine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          How do you know that meta hasn’t created an account on a popular well federated server and it’s using those credentials to scrape the fetiverse?

          You have to assume whatever your post to the Internet is available to anyone and everyone connected. Why would federated servers be and different.

    • misophist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Is there any sort of legal precedent that covers a situation where:

      • I am a user on a network server.
      • Meta connects their server to my server so their users and I can interact.
      • Am I now bound by a terms of service on Meta’s server that I have not agreed to and may have never seen or been presented with?

      When I joint my instance, am I implicitly agreeing to any terms of service that exist on any instance that my instance decides to federate with?#

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy and mastodon profiles are public so I don’t know if privacy concerns are a problem unique to federation with meta considering they could just scrape your profile if they wanted the data that bad. I’d be much more concerned about small instance admins losing funding as users migrate to instances that federate with meta until threads and the big instances are the only ones left on the fediverse

    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      How can they possibly steal any data other than what you publicly shared on the internet?