Untangling Threads | Erin Kissane

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fact that Libs of TikTok exists on Threads shows their lack of moderation. That group’s entire purpose is targeted harassment campaigns.

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  • jcrabapple@infosec.pub ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I keep seeing people say this but I’m not sure anyone has even checked. I don’t think they have a Threads account.

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    • BeneGesseritWitch@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Did you bother to look? cause it was the first search result: https://www.threads.net/@libsoftiktokofficial

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think the people who are genuinely psyched about Threads on fedi are monsters or fascists, and I don’t think those kinds of characterizations—which show up a lot in my replies—are helping. And I understand that our theories of change just don’t overlap as much as I’d initially hoped.

  And here’s me, who frankly couldn’t give two shits either way, and finds the excessive discussion quite absurd.

  I mean, if the federated space stays small, no commercial company holds much value into integrating with it. Naturally. This is also why it’s so transparent that for Meta this is a way to pre-empty legislation and restrictions in the EU by being "open"™️ with Threads.

  But on the other hand if it does take off, Meta is really going to be the least of the protocol’s problems. The sheer amount of commercial providers will be, including the very large like Meta, Microsoft and Google, up to thousands and millions of small providers that all build on purely commercial interests. Nevermind Apple’s obviously incompatible version they’ll make the only one you can install apps for on iOS.

  Meta specifically? It’s an early warning shot, either about a future of obscurity, or of commercialization. The effort spent on them specifically and not on underlying general questions such as how to handle a baseline-commercialized fediverse feels like a huge waste of time that could come around to bite people in the arse when Threads does take off and thousands of companies build up servers. And it’s not like the absolutely marginal amount of people over here defederating with them is going to even show up on Threads’ radar when it comes to impact.

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• corrupts_absolutely@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  really nice writeup, but this made me curious, have any meta lawsuits resulted in jail time? pretty sure an individual wouldnt be able to get away with what meta has been doing

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  • thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not as far as I know.

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• Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Honestly? I don’t think Lemmy will even see 1% of Threads content. So I don’t see why we’re fussing over defedding here.

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  • Masimatutu@mander.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because a lot of people here are also on the microblogging side of the Fediverse and a lot of people find Lemmy/kbin’s presentation of conversations a lot more appealing.

    Also a lot of people don’t realize that we won’t see Threads content at all because they don’t quite understand how federation works.

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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      We will only see threads content if they deliberately interact with us here.

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• Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A couple counterpoints. First, there’s no such thing as a public secret. They can get our data whether we like it or not. And there’s not much difference between sharing your post through boosting vs just sharing a screenshot of your post.

  It might be more productive to make a list of demands, rather than black and white defederation. Defederate until they have proper moderation, offer to federate as soon as they take proper action.

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  • spaduf@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it’s wild to see your first point made so frequently especially in light of the push for advancements in digital rights over the past few years. Having access to your days is by no means equivalent to having rights over it’s usage (yes even with regards to showing ads NEXT TO the content) and any conversation that doesn’t take that into account is dishonest at best.

    Your second point I strongly agree with. The absolute best case scenario here would’ve been for the existing fediverse to refuse federation unless Meta agreed to some fairly basic terms. It was probably the only time when noncorporate social was going to have any leverage at all. Not necessarily too late but it seems unlikely

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• muntedcrocodile@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We should be black and white federate defederate we should establish some rules here are some i would like to submit:

  No single direction federation No pushing ads

  We also need something to prevent a single instance becoming a monopoly on the fediverse but idk how we are going to implement that

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