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Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse
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Spookbook is 
. Everything you say and do on there will be held against you. The company is notorious for 
fishing expeditions.
Can someone please explain why this matters. Almost all madtadon instances are public and can be data mined by any company. Why is it such a large concern if threads is able to see a portion of the posts on the fediverse like any other mastadon instance. To me the only thing threads federation changes is allowing me to view posts on threads without the amount of MS my cursor is over the podt being data mined to know what food Ill be craving in a week.
So they'll grab what is needed to federate? The same stuff every instance grabs?
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There seems to be a general consesnus that feddiverse users don't want anything to do with meta and that instances will defederate with threads. I'm curious if the majority will follow this trend to avoid yet another EEE, or if there will be some exceptions. I bet meta will be open to pay good money to instance admins for "colaboration" if the instance is big enough.
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Wouldnt the name of your profile be more specific than your ip address so it doesnt matter if they get your ip address or not?
Also, why would they store the data? They cant show you ads
I think the policy has more to do with your server's IP address. The language on the page is a bit vague, since they absolutely collect the IP addresses of their own users.
Like tentacles of a blood sucking octopus...
So if I read this right, no big deal as long as you don't interact with threads stuff on the fediverse?
That's not how I read it, but I'm not going to claim to be a fediverse expert. That post specifically says:
Provided that a Third Party User is followed by or following a Threads account, Meta will ingest these pieces of data specifically:
To me, this reads as, even if a Threads user follows you, your info gets chewed up by Meta.
In other words, if you post somewhere on the Fediverse, and some Threads user bumps into it, they can follow you, and that will send all that data to Meta. And it looks to include data well beyond the post the Threads user saw.
To me, this is a "sound the alarm" moment. If you came here to avoid Meta's data harvesting, this sounds like you at least need to be on an instance defederated from threads, but I'm not sure even that's enough.
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this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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