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Yikes, look how much Meta wants to collect from you with their new “Threads" app, which is defederated by most servers.

apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-

asandikci
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@chikorita157
Are there any statistic for which servers or how many servers defederated Threads?

chikorita157 🐰:unverified:
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@asandikci
fedipact.online

But there are some instances that do block it, but haven't signed the pact

fedipact.online🖤 ANTI-META FEDI PACT 🖤
asandikci
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Lord Blood :mastodon:
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@chikorita157 Meta’s new data harvesting tool

Ricardo Harvin
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@chikorita157 Health and fitness...

If anyone had any doubts about Meta's intent and goals, that alone should be terrifying and convincing.

Who could possibly want an ostensible social media app run by Zuckerberg to collect and sell their health data?

Macer
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@chikorita157 isn’t that all meta apps tho? it’s how they make their money.

Terri Garland
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@chikorita157 Thanks for sharing that info. Makes me very glad to be on an instance administered by @trumpet, who is taking a cautious approach.

AsHperson
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@chikorita157 how could they not? It's Facebook! They would be doing their investors a disservice if they didn't make as much money from users as possible lol.

Thaiis Thei 𓁟
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@chikorita157 So much no.

Alexey Skobkin
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@chikorita157
Can you tell me where did you get that "most" for server count?
I'd like to see some stats.

Andrew Zonenberg
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@chikorita157 Aaaand this is why I only access facebook from a dedicated virtual machine where it can't spy on anything I don't explicitly give it.

Steven Zekowski
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@chikorita157
Wow.
Just wow.

I always look at that before downloading an app. They definitely win the “prize” for invasiveness. By a mile (or km).

Eleonora :sierra_scrunk:
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@chikorita157 facebook (I will not call them meta) after stealing someone's identity so they can sell it for another 10 bucks

10tothe22
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@chikorita157

Shouldn’t Biden give a PSA or something? This is a disaster. Literally, no one on earth should use this app.

Ragashingo
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@chikorita157 Defederation is going to kill Mastodon. Maybe Bluesky or Threads won't gain traction, but something where a handful of admins don't utterly destroy the SOCIAL CONNECTIONS built by their users will come along and be good and this place will cruise along banning each other over increasingly narrow ideals until there is no one left.

Normal users don't want all this crap, they just want to follow friends and have everything work... :(

Braw ☕🏳️‍🌈
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@Ragashingo the problem is that companies like meta know you want to keep connections, that's why they take you hostage through them. No doubt they'll start implementing proprietary extensions that other Fedi software won't be able to support and eventually just pull the plug with some dumb reasoning like ‘oh there's so much bad content on fedi that we cannot moderate so we decided to remove federation’. It happened before, it's bound to happen again.

@chikorita157

Ragashingo
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@brawaru @chikorita157 It's back to: "The Fediverse! We're free and open! (Except when we aren't!)

I, too suspect bad future behavior... but what if it's 10 years away?! I only really used and loved Twitter for 10 years and enjoyed the heck out of it when it was good. It became a real time backbone of the Internet (weather reports, traffic alerts, sensors of all kind) when it was good.

Preemptively defederation is a massive violation of principles! It makes me angry.

Fahri Reza 🍉
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@Ragashingo @brawaru @chikorita157 they are too big to fail by then, you wouldn't be able to imagine the opposition

You'd probably need government level entity to arbitrate by then, like what's happening in Canada and news producers.

Ragashingo
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@dylanwre @chikorita157 @quokka Social networks didn’t get popular on the tagline: “It’s great, just run your own server!” That’s inching towards out of touch tech elitism.

I have huge respect for those that do the hard work to make tech happen, but they are and should be the exception. Normal users just want things to work and don’t want to see all their friends vanish with each new ideological threat that they didn’t even know existed.

Dylan Roskams-Edris
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@Ragashingo @chikorita157 @quokka I don't want to get into a flame war about it. Maybe we just want different things. I'm OK with it not being super easy if that's the trade off for avoiding centralized control and therefore centralized power.

Maybe Mastodon won't become 'popular' for a given definition of the word, but that's also OK with me. Having a smaller community where I find cool stuff, talk to cool people, and am not surveiled and the object of constant ads is pretty great.

Θεία πίτσα 🧀🍕🥓🍅
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@Ragashingo @chikorita157 I'm a normal user and I am all pro defederating meta

Ragashingo
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@Stinpizzamou @chikorita157 Yeah... no. A normal user is someone who just signs up and uses the platform. You're doing advocacy for complex, platform-level technical features vs unannounced upcoming competitor platforms that 99.999% of humanity doesn't even know exists yet. Which is all pretty cool!

Take some darn pride in being awesome! Just don’t pretend your view point is that of the average user. :)

Θεία πίτσα 🧀🍕🥓🍅
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@Ragashingo @chikorita157 I am awesome, and a normal user. I had extensive talks with other normal users about what meta accessing the fediverse would mean and formed my opinion. That's most fediverse users. If they are here, they know more than what you give them credit

terp
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@chikorita157 I keep wishing Apple would invert this, so you could say “by default, I don’t want to share the following information” and the App Store would slow or stop you from installing apps that don’t match your preferences.

punko
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@chikorita157@sakurajima.moe Fools and their Data are easily parted.
#Meta #Threads

slimepsychic
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@chikorita157 This is generally what they collect with Instagram and Facebook too. A good reason to delete them if you have them.

Lesley Aeschliman
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@chikorita157 I had been kind of considering looking at Threads as another social media outlet, but after seeing how much info they want to collect, this is a hard pass.

They should probably rename this app to "Big Brother."

Grant
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@chikorita157
Yes I particularly liked the last item. "Other data" What other data? Shoe size is pretty much all that is left!
@mativity

annie gray
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@chikorita157
I don't understand enough about the implications here. I only know that I want nothing to do with any Zuckerberg platform, ever again. If Meta would have access to my data, I'm out.

Fox Lee
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@chikorita157 Gosh, if I lived in the US I would be /particularly/ concerned about that "health & fitness" one right now. If there hasn't already been a thing where Facebook eagerly dobbed on people needing abortions and/or trans healthcare, it's only a matter of time :\

just adrienne
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@TheArtGremblin @chikorita157 I'm pretty sure at least one person in the US (can't remember which state) went to prison because of subpoena'd Facebook messages related to abortion pills, yes.

Alex :transgender_heart:
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@chikorita157 Holy fuckin hell. And people were like "Just give them a chance". You think they aren't scooping up all the data that they fucking can?

Defiance!
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@chikorita157 At least they're clear about what they're collecting, such as my "Identifiers", my "Sensitive Info", and my "Other Data"

Ben Stokman
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@chikorita157 Is this a mastodon app? What is this? Is it its own platform?

Nari
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Where’s @daringfireball to tell us how foolish we all are for not wanting a surveillance app to join us. Really regretting disagreeing with his excellent and definitely not old and out of touch take.

Wolleysegap
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@chikorita157@sakurajima.moe Ah. So it's a marketing scam disguised as a messaging app

Sam Dresser
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@chikorita157 @Fahfoofnik Yikes. Health and Fitness? Really? Browsing history?

Reboot Robotnik
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@chikorita157 How about NO

Pandora
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@chikorita157 the reaction from the fediverse when facebook said they were gonna make their own instance was absolutely hilarious and it makes me proud of us all :)

Angel :verified: :kannaheart:
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@chikorita157 No thanks, i prefer Mastodon :nnezukolove56:

vieuxnez
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@chikorita157

So what you’re saying is… “don’t touch the threads”?

Bad Rob, Best Rob
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@chikorita157
Ah cool, didnt know my skin could successfully crawl off my body like that. What weak excuse can they possibly give for needing health data!

Miranda Allen
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@chikorita157 I assume FB and Instagram collect the same data, do you know how this compares to twitter, spoutible, countersocial, cohost, tumbler? Just trying to get the full picture.

Fahri Reza 🍉
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Does that mean we give consent for our data if my fediverse host federated with their network?

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