Meta’s new app “Threads” is up pre-order in the App Store. Let’s do a quick check on what data they want from you compared to the official Mastodon app, Mammoth and Ivory.
Spoiler: Meta wants to know and track everything about you, and Mastodon doesn’t want anything.
@clifff if this is a #Mastodon interface? Then #Threads must be blocked from all of #fediverse to prevent our content gets leaked to #meta / #Facebook. Yes, I know everything on fediverse is public and can be easily scraped, but I still wouldn't like Meta to have it on a golden plate without any effort.
Also, it is still possible some conversations are not meant to be public.
Cc.: @Gargron
@mahmoudajawad @clifff @Gargron
There are no DMs on Mastodon instances.
And either party can add anyone into that thread. Don't treat it as private.
(I wouldn't treat Twitter DMs as essentially private either but that's a different matter).
@dragonfrog @mahmoudajawad @clifff @Gargron
From the Privacy Policy:
"Direct and followers-only posts: ...We make a good faith effort to limit the access to those posts only to authorized persons, but other servers may fail to do so.... Please keep in mind that the operators of the server and any receiving server may view such messages, and that recipients may screenshot, copy or otherwise re-share them. Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon."
Nuff said I think.
@dragonfrog @mahmoudajawad @clifff @Gargron
You can think of it that way if you like but it makes no difference.
clifff
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