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Please defederate from threads.net (aussie.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Meta threads will open federation to the fediverse soon, and while this is mainly to mastodon it will still affect lemmy. They are acting like they won't be evil, but let's be real this is Facebook when have they ever done that.

This article which has been trending lately explains some of the issues. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

This comment here is a simple analogy if you can't be bothered reading the article. https://lemmy.ca/comment/5702922

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Turns out I was wrong about the tracking and advertising they absolutely could do it and they absolutely will:

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111585528118111249

They could send ads masquerading as posts/comments and track you using images (since they are served from Meta's servers similarly to how tracking works with images in emails

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

I didn't think of that, if you federate then you essentially become a publisher of their ads and tracking. Ty for the link.