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Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough to protect your privacy once they join the fediverse
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this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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Even if you and the instance you are using is blocking Threads your information still becomes visible to Threads if someone on an instance that isn't blocking Threads interacts with you. The interaction can come in the form of following, boosting, or mentioning your name.
Then the fear, according of the article, is for hate groups going out of their way to harass vulnerable groups.
And it's worth mentioning that the article has specific cases of that happening already.
They don't even need to go through a middle third party instance, they just have to have a ghost instance that nobody know it belongs to them and this one will federate with everybody else
For example if you go to FMHY federated instances, there is one called evil.social , that could be from Meta or Google or NSA... nobody knows