Meta just announced that they are trying to integrate Threads with ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.). We need to defederate them if we want to avoid them pushing their crap into fediverse.

If you’re a server admin, please defederate Meta’s domain “threads.net

If you don’t run your own server, please ask your server admin to defederate “threads.net”.

  • jimbo@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    which states that they’ll gather all that pii if you interact with their content.

    Your public account info, public posts, and interactions are not “PII”, they’re what’s necessary for every instance in the fediverse to work. How do you think people are going to see your name and your posts if their servers can’t access it? There’s literally nothing stopping Meta from hoovering up all that data right now anyway, because it’s PUBLIC.

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      11 months ago

      sorry, I didn’t follow the legal definition of what’s PII in the comment.

      with meta, just the IP address and one visit is enough to personally identify you though. they have testified before that they have profiles on users who haven’t signed up with any of their (dis)services at all.
      and threads explicitly states in their privacy policy that they use pixels and web beacons, which they use for this purpose.