Thomas RicouardFor people afraid that Threads will "steal" your data / exploit it? Do you know that posting public posts, on a non private instance allow anyone to do so? Literally anyone can retrieve all your public posts and do whatever with them. Meta could do the same, and they don't need Threads for that. I really don't get the point.
Joanne Stocker-Kelly@dimillian I don't care about my public posts, but the data the app wants isn't publicly available https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/jul/05/meta-delays-eu-launch-of-twitter-rival-threads-amid-uncertainty-over-personal-data-use
Mike@joannekelly @dimillian fwiw, the things #threads claims to collect are all things that it *may* want to collect at some point. It would still have to contend with fine-grained access control that iOS (and I believe Android) has these days. Unless you explicitly grant threads the ability to see your health data or your location or w/e, it shouldn’t be allowed to. Thanks to modern mobile OS sandboxing and permissioning models!
@joannekelly @dimillian That said, Facebook has a history of doing fancy things to bypass these restrictions so stay weary.
@sass @dimillian Thanks for that explanation. I do like how iOS puts me a bit more in control of my data.