YSK Meta is also a threat to the privacy of fediverse users, if there are fediverse instances that remain federated with Meta.
Ross Schulman, senior fellow for decentralization at digital rights nonprofit the Electronic Frontier Foundation, notes that if Threads emerges as a massive player in the fediverse, there could be concerns about what he calls “social graph slurping." Meta will know who all of its users interact with and follow within Threads, and it will also be able to see who its users follow in the broader fediverse. And if Threads builds up anywhere near the reach of other Meta platforms, just this little slice of life would give the company a fairly expansive view of interactions beyond its borders.
Isn't this information that can be just as meaningfully scraped from the Fediverse as it is? And if they truly need to operate an instance to scrape that data whats to stop them from simply operating an instance and failing to advertise that it's owned and operated by Meta?
I am so happy that I’ve deleted my facebook account about 5 years ago and never since then used any app from Zuckercamp.
I still have to make a few more accounts with one of my proton mail addresses and I will de-google myself almost completely, with only youtube as an exception.
Luckily for me, anyone who wanted to keep in touch simply has my number to just call or jumped onto Telegram train with me some time ago and then switched for Signal after just a few months.
I don’t know anyone who feels like they owe Zuck anything but I heard quite a few times “I would delete my fb account but I need it for a work group chat because everyone else is there” and I can sometimes see some FOMO there.
But then, now some of those groups afaik are slowly migrating to Discord — which maybe is not perfect but still sometimes any change is a big change.
Just a reminder for anyone using Facebook and Facebook messenger,they are separate apps and you need to set permissions to your liking on them separately. By default they both have pretty much everything enabled.
I fell for the hype and down loaded to see what it was about. I didn’t read that!! What does the financial info mean? What level of detail do they have access to? Like for credit score is that info on my phone or are they getting access to a credit card app? Stealing info while I’m logged into app?
are a lot of these options not opt-in at the system level? on iOS at least. i know they can approximate a lot using ad tracking but not health info on the phone if you don’t allow it
Waiting for threads to be available through other ActivePub instances like mastodon. Being free from giants, yet having the possibility to access their content.