What to know about Threads
blog.joinmastodon.org
There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.

Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.

  • donut4ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    So, basically just don’t use their app and you’re fine. They’re just another server that you can join and leave whenever you wanted. They have no authority outside of their own server. They can’t show ads and they can’t follow people and collect their data outside of their server. Threads is just an app for their server. Cool, they can eat a bag of dicks then.

    • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      One thing they can collect are boosts. And you better believe they’ll try to associate that with an existing Facebook or Instagram based ad profile.

    • spaduf@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It actually looks like they can and will collect and sell data from outside of their server:

      "Information From Third Party Services and Users: We collect information about the Third Party Services and Third Party Users who interact with Threads. If you interact with Threads through a Third Party Service (such as by following Threads users, interacting with Threads content, or by allowing Threads users to follow you or interact with your content), we collect information about your third-party account and profile (such as your username, profile picture, IP address, and the name of the Third Party Service on which you are registered), your content (such as when you allow Threads users to follow, like, reshare, or have mentions in your posts), and your interactions (such as when you follow, like, reshare, or have mentions in Threads posts).

      We use the information we collect for Threads for the purposes described in the Meta Privacy Policy, including to provide, personalize, and improve Threads and other Meta Products (including seamless personalization of your experience across Threads and Instagram), to provide measurement, analytics and other business services (including ads), to promote safety, integrity and security, to communicate with you, and to research and innovate for social good."

      https://help.instagram.com/515230437301944?helpref=faq_content

      • donut4ever@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        One doesn’t know what they’re talking about, and it’s either Facebook or the founder of mastodon. If you read the founder’s response, none of the shit meta said they can collect is possible. Who do we believe now? Lol

        • Dark_Blade@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          1 year ago

          Facebook’s probably listing anything that is and might be possible to collect, as a way to cover their legal bases already.