You don’t have privacy in public, that’s the difference between public and private. If meta wanted to they could scrape the entirety of the fediverse every weekend without anyone being federated with an instance of theirs. So that isnt a good reason for defederating.
Fear of EEE is a more reasonable argument, but given that it can be done at any point I dont see any reason to do it pre-emptively rather than take a wait and see approach.
Lucia@eviltoast.org 10 months ago
I literally said that: “There’s this weird argument that our data is public so privacy violation is okay.”
It doesn’t matter if it’s public, they use their server for data mining and we can prevent that. Someone may collect our data secretely but it doesn’t make more open approach to data mining any better or more ethical.
The longer users on your instance interact with content on Threads, the harder it will be to defederate (people will get angy about losing their content and their reach).
Womble@lemmy.world 10 months ago
My point was that you cant have your privacy violated in public as you don’t have privacy in public. That’s what being in public means, a place that isnt private.