Pros and cons of federating with threads? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Jackolantern@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I saw in the posts recently how Metas thread grew rapidly in a span of just a day. I understand that since threads posts a privacy nightmare (no surprises there) I’m leaning towards de-federating with them.

But I am also cautiously excited about the massive amount of content if we federated instead.

So for purposes of discussion, may I know the pros and cons of federating with threads?

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[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 6 points 1 year ago

Data security. it's Meta. Any and all user information, including admin data, naturally exposed by federated services instantly gets sucked into the Zuck data vacuum to build a user profile. Right now, we're still reasonably insulated from them.

Couldn't they just run another instance and not tell us the domain name and silently steal all our data anyway? I feel like there is no way to have data security when it is decentralized. All my Lemmy data is on hundreds of other servers already.

[-] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 6 points 1 year ago

This much is true, I concede that. It's highly likely they're farming this very thread as we speak- the vacuum covers all, and Zuck has clearly been thinking about the fediverse for quite some time. However it's of limited use to feed the other points when they can't use the data to develop direct connections with their own internal users via direct interactions.

Also you doubleposted by accident.

[-] dandroid@dandroid.app 1 points 1 year ago

I saw the double post and immediately deleted the second one. The one you replied to was the one I actually deleted, but it looks like the delete didn't federated to you. That's really scary actually if you can't guarantee that you can delete stuff on Lemmy. If I rant about something in the heat of the moment and say something I regret, I can't guarantee that I can remove it.

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