The exchange is about Meta’s upcoming ActivityPub-enabled network Threads. Meta is calling for a meeting, his response is priceless!

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    I think it’ll be harder than that, even.

    Meta doesn’t need to spin up an instance to abuse user data on the fediverse, they just need an app that can read it. A hypothetical meta fediverse app could allow users to select their own instance and still read and collect data on the connected instances. As far as I know, there is no way in the protocol to prevent this.

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      1 year ago

      they may be able to read certain data from another instance but their current platform allows complete surveillance of what you looked at, how long, every click and scroll, etc while also being able to feed that in to manipulating what you see.

      imo it will be basically impossible to have that kind of impact on people from instances not controlled by them, particularly if the other instance defederates so they don’t see meta instance content.

      • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        See yashima’s comment below: them adopting ActivityPub is just another way of killing it. The link they provided I think should be mandatory reading

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      1 year ago

      Our exchange here is public, a gift to humanity and all aliens that might stumble upon it. If meta can make money from it, so be it. But anyone else can just as well.

      • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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        1 year ago

        Except they can build proprietary code on top of it and take over open-sourced activitypub adoption

        It’s just another way to kill competition