or, just don't join threads.
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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This guy feds
I've a better option: have absolutely nothing to do with Meta, don't interact with it, block it in your network, avoid it like the plague. Right now I'm so glad I'm in Europe because that shit cannot launch here, that's how bad you should tell people Meta is and make then join you.
There are a lot of Americans I'm sure that would be like "but it's Europe, why should we care what they do?", you should care because they at least try to protect people's privacy, to some extent, it's far from perfect, but on this case it's working fine as this shit cannot operate here... for now.
I haven't had Facebook since like 2008. My family and friends keep asking me to join it, and I tell them I'll never do that. If they want to contact me, they know where to find me elsewhere.
The only problem with this is that the Threads privacy policy states that if one of their users interacts with YOU, it gives them the rights to scrape and sell your data.
Defederating from any corporate-controlled instance is how we can keep the fediverse healthy.
I this this requires some more subtlety: defederating from a corporate-controlled competitor can prevent Embrace/Extend/Extinguish.
Meanwhile, I think it would be perfectly sensible for businesses to create their own Fediverse instances on their own domain to control their social media presence, and avoid paying to be recognized as who you are. Communities on their instance could replace the once-ubiquitous forums.