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Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

those of us that are concern about privacy arent protected.

You aren't protected anyway. There is literally nothing to stop Meta from creating an unmarked service to scoop up all ActivityPub data that it can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

There actually is based on how Federation works. Federation only works by caching information between users that are interacting with each other. So the easiest way to do that is not by scraping, but by siccing their millions of users into the Fediverse.

It's why not everyone's lemmy pages look the same depending on the instance

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If that really was their end game, they'd just use bots. Much more effective that way.