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Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse
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this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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Ip address is only sent to a users home server though.
No idea how it works for Mastodon, but for Lemmy they will have the IP of the server, nothing else is available and they can’t magically get it.
I wouldn't put it past them to put tracking images into posts though. Either way... I wouldn't be happy on a server that is connected to threads.
Speaking of which... I see lemmy world see still hasn't defederated from Threads. I guess it's time for me to kill my account here.
I’m glad I have my own instance where I only defederate from instances creating issues.
I might end up using a personal instance as well. But in that case I'll probably end up with an instance whitelist, rather than defederating from disliked ones.
I’m currently defederated from only 2 instances. You would be unable to have this discussion with me if you went your way, unless you whitelisted all those mini-instances and regularly checked for new ones.
Ah, bummer. I thought I'd be in the clear because we're having this conversation on Lemmy.ml. Thanks for straightening me out.
No, defederating also blocks you from seeing the comments and posts of users of those instances, no matter where the communities are. That is literally the only reason for my 2 defederated instances so far (hexbear and lemmygrad) because I got sick of all the fascist comments.
Does that mean that the only way of stopping my data from reaching Threads would be for them to defederate from my instance?
No, if you defederate from them, all connections to them are blocked. But federated data is public, if they wanted it, they could just grab it via the API.