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Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's Threads and why do we need in in the fediverse? I don't have Facebook and don't use any Meta products, so I'm clueless ? Is it like closed source Mastodon or Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Its a microblogging platform like mastodon and no, we don't need it in the fediverse. There's exactly one explanation for why they would want to join.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Remember, if Meta can collect your data this way, any bad actor or government can as well.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not trying to be argumentative, but can't Meta and governments already scrape everyone's RSS feed in the Fediverse? It's open; that's the point.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That is my point. What isn't necessarily obvious, though, is that the scrapable data is more comprehensive than what could be scraped on traditional platforms

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

it may be more comprehensive than trying to scrape other platforms, but the data that is available is absolutely nothing compared to what they collect on their own platforms. they're almost certainly not very concerned with collecting our relatively mild amount of data.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's not about collecting data, the fediverse freely shares all its data by nature.

Threads has a lot more users and Meta would use that to attack smaller instances, a bit like what Lemmy world was doing a few months ago.

The biggest instances usually have the most communities and if they ban other instances, rival members are more likely to migrate over than to create copy cat communities.

It's not terrible at the moment but bringing in threads is like throwing a shark in a shrimp tank.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

So my shitposting does has value?!