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Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by deadsuperhero@lemmy.ml to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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This shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.

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[-] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Provided that a Third Party User is followed by or following a Threads account, Meta will ingest these pieces of data specifically:

Username

Profile Picture

IP Address

Name of Third Party Service

Posts from profile

Post interactions (Follow, Like, Reshare, Mentions)

So if you follow a threads user or even if a threads user just follows you, they pull all this data?

IMO this seems like reason to defederate across the board. Someone else can leak your info to Meta.

[-] jhulten@infosec.pub 18 points 1 year ago

Most of this is just part of Federation. When I saw this comment my client/server didn't have to fetch it from your server. It was pushed when you posted it so I had it locally.

[-] 7heo@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

expired

[-] Ottomateeverything@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, but if you host an image, and my client prefetches it, it's going to exposed my IP to your image server. And if you have clauses saying you're collecting IPs...

Meta basically invented this shit. They'll do it again. It's what they do.

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