It should come as no surprise that the lemmy.ml admin team took about 2 minutes to decide to pre-emptively block threats / Meta. Their transparent and opportunistic scheme to commodify the fediverse and it’s users will not be allowed to proceed.

We strongly encourage other instance administrators to do the same, given the grave threat they pose to the fediverse.

  • hydra@lemmy.world
    47·
    2 years ago

    Thank you so much! Let’s make sure the XMPP situation never repeats ever again.

    • ElephantInTheRoom@vlemmy.net
      162·
      2 years ago

      Still using heavily encrypted, self-hosted XMPP to talk to my family without META.

      Even if they somehow manage to drag the majority of users over to their platform, we’ll still have our little free haven.

      • AeroBlue@lemmy.world
        17·
        2 years ago

        Yea most people who will use threads probably wouldn’t use other Fediverse things or even know what they are. And people who are already here hate Meta anyway

        • ElephantInTheRoom@vlemmy.net
          101·
          2 years ago

          Yep. My only concern about Meta joining the Fediverse through ActivityPub is privacy related.

          Any federated instance can read any other federated instance, their users and what they do or what they talk about. A perfect victim for Meta’s ad-targeting data siphon.

              • Godspeed@lemmy.ml
                2·
                2 years ago

                I think the more concerning part is the medium in which people use Threads. It’s one think for Meta to scrape for data, it’s a much worse thing for someone to install the apps on the phone.

              • Blxter@lemmy.zip
                2·
                2 years ago

                So how would it see what the admin sees if it is not an admin of the instance?

                • ElephantInTheRoom@vlemmy.net
                  4·
                  2 years ago

                  Any admin from any instance can as long as both instances are federated with each other.

                  Say I upvote something on lemmy.ml, then the admins of every instance federated with lemmy.ml can see it in their logs.

                  Doesn’t seem bad? It can be if someone collects this data en masse to feed some ad-algorithm with it. Or much worse, an adversary gets this data to target people based on their opinions, to dox them, etcetera.