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AtaKe Jul 6, 2023

About Instagram's "Threads" and people's concerns about privacy

About Instagram's "Threads" and people's concerns about privacy - Lemmy.world

I know that many people are concerned about “Threads” privacy policy and are all screaming “WE WILL BLOCK THREADS”. I honestly can’t see how it’s going to gather any personal information since Lemmy, mastodon etc. doesn’t collect any information at all. Like, how can you gather information about user, if he doesn’t have any information about himself. Sure, Threads will collect info about its users, that’s obvious, but I think it’s a bad idea to just block it from the start

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Jamie Jul 6, 2023

It’s not just about personal data. But what will definitely happen is they’re going to attempt an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. They’ll embrace the fediverse, then they’ll add their own features on top on their platform without giving back to the wider community. Then, when they leech as many people to their platform as they can from the rest of the Fediverse after making open projects struggle to keep up, they’ll drop it and kill the rest of the network in the process.

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Ignacio

when they leech as many people to their platform as they can from the rest of the Fediverse

That's users' fault. Whose responsibility is it if I go to Threads? Is it mine, or is it Meta's? It's supposed that we, users, are mature enough to know where is our place and where we're treated better, as users, as humans, and as data owners. If someone from Mastodon or another place decides to go to Threads, it's their fault (that someone).