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What should we do about Threads? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by NineteenDoornails@programming.dev to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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A lot of people dislike it for the privacy nightmare that it is and feel the threat of an EEE attack. This will also probably not be the last time that a big corporation will insert itself in the Fediverse.

However, people also say that it will help get ActivityPub and the Fediverse go more mainstream and say that corporations don't have that much influence on the Fediverse since people are in control of their own servers.

What a lot of posts have in common is that they want some kind of action to be taken, whether it'd be mass defederating from Threads, or accept them in some way that does not harm the Fediverse as much.

What actions can we take to deal with Threads?

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[-] dr_doomscroller@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Aren't the privacy concerns about threads so bad they can't release it in Europe?

If you give meta a crack in the door of the fediverse it's going to do all it can to consume it entirely. Allow meta in at the peril of federated social media.

[-] dbilitated@aussie.zone 13 points 1 year ago

privacy concerns around their app, it's a nightmare. never install it. but they can't get any data from the protocol that you aren't already publishing, and they can already get that without starting a different service.