I was wondering why I can’t follow people from Threads on Mastodon and found out it’s because the server I’m on has blocked interoperability with Threads.
Wow, so what are my options here? Nag the admins? Switch my account to a different server? What do I lose if I do that? Which one do I switch to? 🤔
https://www.threads.net/@thatadamguy/post/C02Bv7LPmET/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
It sounds like if I switch servers on Mastodon then I’ll lose my post history. Given that I expect I’ll just stop posting on Mastodon when Threads fediverse integration is done and instead will ask Mastodon users to follow my Threads account.
This actually helps consolidate my text-based social media accounts down to one.
@locksmithprime @carnage4life yes, and nobody trusts them. at all. nobody is happy that they intend to hoover up data, produce ads, train AIs and other stuff people abjectly came to masto to avoid.
also, the relationship is one-way. masto can see threads, threads cant see masto.
so moving to threads means losing the ability to interact with your audience entirely.
@Viss @locksmithprime @carnage4life
How is federating making it any easier to Hoover up data? You can view all this without an account.
@Viss @locksmithprime @carnage4life
How sure are we that some of the instances you’re already federated with aren’t just Meta, OpenAI, or Microsoft hovering up data?
Let’s get real - this stuff is all public.
@plasma4045 @locksmithprime @carnage4life because of the thousands of instances that exist, most of them are here expressly to not collect data like meta and google. and just because something is public doesnt instantly mean its trivially accessible or scrapeable, or would even permit that. threads is all public too.
also, look whats happening with ai and scraping of public data, and all the lawsuits.
@WowSuchCyber @plasma4045 @locksmithprime @carnage4life technically, perhaps, depending on their config. but i estimate that once they were found out, a majority of instances would instantly block them outright.
they lied to congress and the senate MULTIPLE TIMES and got away with it. there is zero reason to trust facebook ever again.
@WowSuchCyber @plasma4045 @locksmithprime @carnage4life it is quite possible. from a legal standpoint, getting the firehose from twitter is asking one legal team for permission.
getting the same from mastodon? when every server has a unique admin with their own unique set of rules? good luck. every server is a unique entity with its own terms of service. every server is its own unique legal entity.
trying to do big public scrapes is noisy, burdensome and makes them look really bad.
@WowSuchCyber @plasma4045 @locksmithprime @carnage4life so its in their best interest to get some kind of api level access. which they now have. but even still, they are at the mercy of the existing fleet of servers out there.
this access will allow them to taillor their existing bullshit and disinformation machine to grapple with activitypub.
its going to get ugly and fucked, just like cambrige analytica. its practically guaranteed. they got away with murder, so they'll keep murdering
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carbon offsets are BS ☕️🥬
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