Looking for feedback from pdx.social users about allowing federation with Meta's new threads platform. My main concern is that data from our server that makes it's way into threads will then become part of Meta's data collection.
The fact that they can't launch in the EU because it would prevent them from mixing their data sources for advertising is telling.
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@foozmeat Fwiw, the EU thing might not be true: https://social.vivaldi.net/@justinionn/110659636319486102
It was also mentioned that Facebook will just scrape what they’d want anyway, regardless of federation. That’s probably true too.
I’m OK to wait and see, but I’m interested to see what a lot of new users (people I actually know IRL for example) do with the Fediverse.
I don’t think FB is going to give much of a choice here. They don’t even mention Fedi in Threads descriptions. They might just connect to the big instances.
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Also, a story from the Irish Independent newspaper has been widely shared; cited as evidence that The EU has found Meta's data collection practices so nefarious, this has prohibited the launch of Threads in Ireland (and the rest of The EU)... The Irish DPC later clarified that this isn't strictly true. This clarification isn't being as widely shared. https://www.businesspost.ie/tech/data-protection-commission-we-are-not-blocking-instagrams-threads/ #Threads #Meta #TwitterMigration #Ireland #EU
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