It really comes down to whether you believe that Facebook is scraping the entire internet right now or not.
I’d prefer to not directly feed my information into their servers.
Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
What data is Facebook “hoovering up” through federation that they don’t already have access to?
I have asked this question a dozen times and no one can ever give me a legitimate answer.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 11 months ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
It doesn’t. They don’t need to scrape the entire internet, just ActivityPub.
PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s the thing, though, you can’t just quote-unquote “scrape activity pub.”
You have to pick every single instance. Believe it or not, not all data is just on every single instance. It’s usually cached by users connecting with different instances.
fadhl3y@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right and if FB wanted to do that it would be well within their capabilities, wouldn’t it?
When does the Threads federation begin? I’ve not yet seen a single message from a Threads user so I imagine this hasn’t yet started.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
That’s the thing, though, you can’t just quote-unquote “scrape activity pub.”
Then what’s the problem?
kingaloo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nothing. This is a PR move by meta, nothing more. They are trying to seem “hip” and push their ads.
Meta, Google, MS, OpwnAI, etc gave akeasy scrubbed fediverse. Probably associated accounts to folks real names.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 11 months ago
How are they going to push ads?
steeznson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Meta don’t need to federate to get all of the ActivityPub information. By it’s nature everything that is posted to it is public and unencrypted - including private messages. This is a PR move instead of a data gathering activity. Maybe also they are trying to bootstrap content into their new platform which would otherwise be a barren wastelend.
h3mlocke@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah that was my understanding, fb will collect the data whether your server is federated with threads or not, fb could even make alternate servers not named “anything meta” and still get the data, but at this point I think they can just get it anyways. I guess the data would be likes, posts, comments, subs your in etc.