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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spaduf@slrpnk.net 11 months agoWorth noting that Meta through threads currently plans to collect and monetize the data of all users that it federates with.
nicetriangle@kbin.social 11 months ago
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.
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
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 11 months ago
Meta also doesn't need to federate in order to do that, since federation just accesses public data.
Carter@feddit.uk 11 months ago
They don’t need to federate to do that.
DmMacniel@feddit.de 11 months ago
that’s even worse than I imagined it :O
Eldritch@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Worth noting. Anyone could already be doing this without threads.
spaduf@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
IANAL, but I’m not sure that’s legal everywhere facebook operates.
BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 11 months ago
It's publicly sitting on the internet.
Phanatik@kbin.social 11 months ago
Have you any idea how many billions Facebook has been fined for this shit.
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.