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.
Wiz@midwest.social 2 months 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 2 months 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
niartenyaw@midwest.social 2 months ago
it may be more comprehensive than trying to scrape other platforms, the public data that is available is absolutely nothing compared to what they collect on their own platforms. they’re almost certainly not very concerned with collecting our relatively mild amount of data.