Comment on Meta is connecting Threads more deeply with the fediverse
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
What’s Threads and why do we need in in the fediverse? I don’t have Facebook and don’t use any Meta products, so I’m clueless ? Is it like closed source Mastodon or Lemmy?
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
Its a microblogging platform like mastodon and no, we don’t need it in the fediverse. There’s exactly one explanation for why they would want to join.
TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Remember, if Meta can collect your data this way, any bad actor or government can as well.
Wiz@midwest.social 1 week ago
Not trying to be argumentative, but can’t Meta and governments already scrape everyone’s RSS feed in the Fediverse? It’s open; that’s the point.
TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 week ago
That is my point. What isn’t necessarily obvious, though, is that the scrapable data is more comprehensive than what could be scraped on traditional platforms
Grimy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
It’s not about collecting data, the fediverse freely shares all its data by nature.
Threads has a lot more users and Meta would use that to attack smaller instances, a bit like what Lemmy world was doing a few months ago.
The biggest instances usually have the most communities and if they ban other instances, other members are more likely to migrate over than to create copy cat communities.
sunzu@kbin.run 1 week ago
So my shitposting does has value?!