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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
    987·
    11 months 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.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.zipEnglish
      275·
      11 months ago

      It’s not as if something was preventing them from

      data-hoarding

      and

      harvesting your data

      here anyway.

      So that part about being followed by a Threads user is just a bit stupid.

      The danger is in them becoming an integral part of the network where people don’t bother to register at a normal instance, and then Meta pulling out and the network remaining half-dead.

    • chriscz@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
      2710·
      11 months ago

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

      • irreticent@lemmy.worldEnglish
        212·
        11 months ago

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

        • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
          42·
          11 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.

        • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          9 months ago

          Meta can collect every scrap of Lemmy right now

          Edit: downvote for what? My comment is true

    • misophist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      11 months 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?#

    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

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