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Plans to pre-emptively defederate from threads?
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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They can't remotely inject ads into your timeline. Your timeline on any ActivityPub compliant server is built locally. The only way would be to embed them into existing posts that they serve you, which would absolutely get them into severe legal trouble as soon as some ad is injected into a famous person's post making it look like an endorsement.
We are talking about Instagram "influencers" here. They will happily include advertisements in their posts themselves if they get some small preferential treatment by the Threads algorithm out of it, or some minuscule revenue sharing like Google does on Youtube.
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I'm sure there will be influencers. But at a certain point it becomes the user's responsibility for who they follow. We are not subject to their algorithm over here, so it's not like their content will be shoved in our face without our express approval.
I don't think we should defederate simply to protect users from themselves, we should do it when a server poses some kind of actual threat, which usually comes down to moderation in most cases. So long as they sufficiently moderate, which remains to be seen and I certainly don't blindly trust them to do that, I can't think of any real harm from federating.
This is not about protecting users from themselves. This is about protecting the wider Fediverse from corporate takeover. If you wait for them to become entrenched and start causing problems, it is too late IMHO.
I can remotely inject an ad into thw timeline... Its called a post. And they could flood the federated timeline with ads simply by posting ads from various accounts. Its really not a hard thing to imagine and thats only one of many possible issues with allowing threads to federate.