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What should we do about Threads? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Aren't the privacy concerns about threads so bad they can't release it in Europe?

If you give meta a crack in the door of the fediverse it's going to do all it can to consume it entirely. Allow meta in at the peril of federated social media.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

privacy concerns around their app, it's a nightmare. never install it. but they can't get any data from the protocol that you aren't already publishing, and they can already get that without starting a different service.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

EU blocked the app yes, because it gathers a lot of data from the user of the app.

Not the website/service in general though.