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What should we do about Threads? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by NineteenDoornails@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 147 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Absolutely defederate from threads immediately from anything threads related.

Threads will collect any and all data they can about users disregarding which server you are on, and not agreeing to their business practices.

There's a reason they are not in the EU, including NI despite being in UK. And that's probably because their practices are illegal, and don't respect the rights of their users according to EU regulation.

The second Lemmy federates with Threads, I'm out of here.

[+] SUPERcrazy3530@lemmy.world -10 points 1 year ago

This is an absolutely awful take. Can you imagine if you had this approach with email? You wouldn't let your email server connect to a Gmail server or any other email server that connected to a Gmail server. That's insane and email becomes worthless.

[-] ralothar@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I know interoperability between email providers is often used to make the concept of federation more aproachable but other than that they are totally different systems.

Your sent emails aren't published and not everyone with an email server can track your activity. Unlike lemmy if it connects to threads

[-] SUPERcrazy3530@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

Sounds like some changes should be made to the Lemmy software then if anyone can just connect and start pulling out private data about me. Mastodon doesn't have that problem. I connect to my server and my server talks to Meta. Meta doesn't get to see any of my private info. Just the stuff I make public.

[-] ralothar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It's a "flaw" of the fediverse in general not about private data. As soon as two instances are federated and users interact with eachother, information like posts, comments, votes etc are shared

[-] SUPERcrazy3530@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah but that's all public information that I'm choosing to put out there. Meta doesn't need to do a complete integration and share posts back to the fedeverse just to grab public information. They can just scrape the sites the way they are now for most of it.

[-] ralothar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Scraping sites to gain information and spinning a web of interaction and activity are 2 different things. If your fine with Meta having this data easily available that's on you. No one stops you from signing up with their services but most people here want to distance themselves from huge corporations and their shenanigans