Various challenges that Meta/Threads may face, according to Facebook's ex-Chief Security Officer (cybervillains.com)

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Some insights from Alex Stamos that I found quite interesting.

TL:DR;

He predicts the challenges will be as follows:

Content Moderation: Enforcing actor and behavior-based content moderation will be difficult in the federated environment. The lack of metadata available in Federation makes it harder to stop spammers, troll farms, and abusers.
Privacy Obligations: With Threads content being pulled down and cached by other servers, it becomes challenging to comply with right-to-data-deletion requirements, such as those imposed by GDPR. The Fediverse lacks mechanisms to enforce content deletion.
Competing with Other Platforms: Meta may face difficulties in competing and reaching feature-parity with platforms like TikTok and Twitter while being bound by the feature set of ActivityPub.

Thoughts?

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[-] resketreke@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

while being bound by the feature set of ActivityPub.

So this is when they'll start adding features exclusive to their instance. Does it sound familiar?

[-] Balssh@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

And if everyone still jumps ship from lemmy/kbin/whatever to their proprietary platform then the project was doomed from the beginning. I find kBin really good for such a new product (can't speak for mod tools) and I can't imagine many features that might make Threads preferable.

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