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MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Threat.
Whatever the stated reasons for joining the fediverse might be, the actual reason is to enhance data scrping capabilities.
Comment on Polls on reactions to Threads
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Threat.
Whatever the stated reasons for joining the fediverse might be, the actual reason is to enhance data scrping capabilities.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s silly to think they can’t scrape data from where they are though.
What’s to stop them from starting a tiny instance, getting all the data, and just keeping quiet about it?
The threads people are already happy to have given up that data, and if meta becomes a problem, defederate from it, or find an instance that isn’t federated with meta threads.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Which of the above sentences is supposed to make me think that it is impossible for Meta to scrape more privacy destroying data, if they go all in on the fediverse?
0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social 9 months ago
Any data they can get from federating, they can get much easier by just scraping it. If your goal is data harvesting, implementing ActivityPub is a huge waste of money
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
They’re going to get more useful data from users they know everything about (threads users) interacting with us, than just scraping with an instance.