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Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse
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Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".
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Ostensibly, yes. However, as a company whose business model is primarily predicated on sale of personal data and analytics, this does create something of a conflict of interest, especially because of Meta's extensive involvement in surveillance capitalism.
Per the article, I really like Mike Macgirvin's stance of "I'll give you the bare minimum of data to make basic interactions work, but not one thing more."
I mean yeah, I get the implications there, but all I'm saying is that they wouldn't be able to federate without the info so it makes sense.