Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 10 months agoI’m copying pasta from my previous reply on other post
Once they can interact with your account, they can pull your data into their server and analyzing it to deliver ads campaign.
What a wild conspiracy theory.
Legally, they can’t collect and process any of the data unless you accepted a contract with them. Just by sending an upvote or a comment to their instance, you don’t agree to any of this.
And if they choose to ignore the law and just do it anyway, they still can’t, because all they have is the data that your instance sends them. They don’t have your geo-location, device Id, etc.
I am not getting it. If i am not using their threads client and signed in to a de federating instance, they would not get my IP address right?
They wouldn’t be able to get it even from a federated instance as long as you don’t use their frontend.
ethan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding how data is handled in federated systems. When an account from Threads interacts with your post or you interact with a Threads post, information is exchanged exclusively through Actions sent between the servers- never to or from your or their client to another server.
They don’t get any information that isn’t already available to your instance- IP address or otherwise. There are no new points to connect.