Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.

corbin@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Masimatutu@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Threads’ size will unaviodably disrupt the Fediverse if they federate fully, regardless their intentions. I think the appropriate approach is making interaction opt-in, like social.coop does: social.coop/@eloquence/111588877096843391

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  • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Threads said that they’re going to be opt-in. Each user will have to actively enable federation, so all this scary news seem a bit pointless to me.

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    • Masimatutu@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, for now. There is discussion to make it opt-out, which Eugen advocates for. Also, if it remains opt-in, very few people there actually have any reason to opt in, which is quite fishy because that means they are trying to keep their silo. Either way we should treat them with caution.

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• Yoz@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think the issue here is users data will be on threads server which god knows how it will be used. To train AI? To target ads ? Nobody knows so better everyone block threads and keep internet safe as these companies have destroyed internet.

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  • corbin@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Public Mastodon posts are already indexed by search engines.

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    • Retrograde@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Indexing by search engines and what Meta harvests are astronomically different - I fail to see your point.

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      • corbin@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        If I am on Mastodon, there is nothing that Threads can collect from me that they can not get already. My posts are public, Meta or anyone else doesn’t need permission to look at them.

        The only risk is if I am sending direct messages to someone on Threads from Mastodon, then obviously Meta has a copy. ActivityPub is not E2E encrypted, you shouldn’t be using it for private communication at all, the threat model is the same between Threads and any other Mastodon server.

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  • Zangoose@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Anything that touches the internet can be scraped. Mastodon DMs aren’t encrypted, and public posts are obviously public. There’s nothing stopping someone from using the API or any web crawler to harvest data on mastodon users anyway.

    Not arguing for/against threads, tbh I don’t even use mastodon much because I don’t really like the idea of microblogging to begin with

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• awwwyissss@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why not just let the serial killer psychopath hang out in the mall, if people don’t want to hang out with them they don’t have to.

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• jcrabapple@infosec.pub ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the way.

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• chitak166@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I fully support this.

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