ᶘ ͡°ᴥ͡°ᶅ James Jul 5, 2023

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.

Please boost 🌲

Show threadAaron HockleyJul 5, 2023
@foozmeat @edox Seems like any public posts are fair game for data collection by anyone - including Meta - regardless of federation, no? They could go scrape all your public posts right now without ever launching Threads.
Show threadᶘ ͡°ᴥ͡°ᶅ James Jul 5, 2023
@techphotoguy As of this weekend pdx.social has AUTHORIZED FETCH enabled so scraping becomes more cumbersome.
Show threadMiakoda Jul 9, 2023
@foozmeat @techphotoguy
What does that mean? I've only seen Mastodon from the user side.
Show threadᶘ ͡°ᴥ͡°ᶅ James 
@hellomiakoda @techphotoguy Here's an explanation
https://fedi.tips/authorized-fetch/
Adding user safety through Authorized Fetch on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

Jul 10, 2023 at 6:38pmWeb
Show threadMiakoda Jul 10, 2023
@foozmeat @techphotoguy
Thank you