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Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)

submitted 1 year ago by deadsuperhero@kbin.social to c/fediverse@kbin.social

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Threads, Meta's new microblogging platform, is updating its terms to focus on data collection from "Third Party Users".

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[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't understand the point of this article at all. How would an instance federate without processing these information? (And I think the IP cannot be collected; not sure why the author indicates so without source.)

Not sure if the author understood anything about the fediverse, either. Feels like an AI-generated article, honestly...

[–] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The point of the article is to appeal to people's hatred of Meta (which is well-earned, admittedly), not to actually say anything meaningful.

Having observed conversations about Threads here and on Lemmy, it's a pretty dependable tactic. I completely understand not wanting to associate with Meta and not trusting their intentions, but there are plenty of things to criticize them for without trying to whip up a fury over what's objectively not problematic. But this is the internet and people like being in a fury, so whip one up they will.

[–] deadsuperhero@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@BraveSirZaphod Hey, I'm the guy that wrote this. While I absolutely hold negative bias towards Meta, the point of the article was not to produce a piece of propaganda, but instead illustrate that their policies have updated to acknowledge the existence of third-party accounts on other servers, that they will be collecting data, and that this is likely a sign that federation may be happening sooner than expected.

Not everybody is happy about that, and some developers are working on hardening their applications to protect against unauthorized access for edge cases related to this.