Comment on Threads is officially starting to test ActivityPub integration

• spaduf@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Worth noting that Meta through threads currently plans to collect and monetize the data of all users that it federates with.

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  • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Worth noting. Anyone could already be doing this without threads.

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    • spaduf@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      IANAL, but I’m not sure that’s legal everywhere facebook operates.

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      • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It's publicly sitting on the internet.

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      • Phanatik@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Have you any idea how many billions Facebook has been fined for this shit.

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      • Eldritch@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Capitalists don’t care if something is legal or not. Just how much the fine will impact their bottom line. And if anyone can prove it. I 100 percent guarantee you that every major tech company is technically in violation of the GDPR etc. it’s just a matter of whether or not it will ever be provable enough to be actionable.

        The data is out there. Meta does not need threads to scrape it is the basic thing to take away.

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  • nicetriangle@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That's actually the most interesting concern I've seen raised about this. I hadn't thought about that. The embrace, extend, extinguish thing is what you see most people raise as a concern.

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    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      All your stuff is already public on the internet without any special access being granted. If they want the convenience of receiving ActivityPub packets and metadata, they can just stand up a honeypot instance and some fake accounts. The Fediverse isn’t built for privacy.

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  • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don't need ActivityPub for that. Nearly everything on the fediverse is public and scrapable. If they want to monetize fediverse data, they already can

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  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Meta also doesn't need to federate in order to do that, since federation just accesses public data.

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  • Carter@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They don’t need to federate to do that.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    that’s even worse than I imagined it :O

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• FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In how far? I think it is actually a valid criticism of a very strongly opinionated take.

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    • Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To be fair, get fucked?

      I think that’s a pretty fair response to shilling for corps.

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      • JimboDHimbo@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I wholeheartedly agree

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• sour@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  why

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