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Protection from Threads using ActivityPub. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Tiritibambix@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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With threads coming to the Fidiverse, I feel dirty and violated. I don't care about my posts being accessible from various instances, but I fucking don't want meta to use what I write, from my username to my subbed communites and such.

I leave in Europe where the app is not allowed right now. How can I protect myself from meta ?

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[–] Pohl@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So. If I understand this correctly it’s possible I do not)

Your mastodon account is on a server that is federated with threads

A threads user, your mom for instance, decides to follow your mastodon account.

When you mother sees your cool post, she will probably have an ad in line with it.

Is meta monetizing your content, or your mother’s attention? Is there a difference?

Is the optimal outcome 1: your mom cannot see your cool post, or 2: your mom joins a mastodon server?

Is 2 likely? Seems to me the real concern here is that non corporate fediverse systems are finally getting some traction and the users (us) are afraid that meta will steal all the users away. I’m not sure if defederating them from a server will make a damn bit of difference.

Meta is going to win the fight for user numbers. Full stop.