Just read that lemmy.ml just did. What’s our status on this?
Admins preemptively defederating Threads has a very middle school feel to it.
I don’t think this is just to spite Meta, they’re known for tracking everything under the sun and there are serious security concerns about what info they may acquire if you unwittingly interact with a post on Threads from another server.
To some degree I’m less concerned with them tracking/gathering info and more with their lax moderation allowing for all manner of hateful content to spread. Imo they’re not that far removed from instances like exploding heads or the like.
They’re the same folks that have enabled the spread of genocidal rhetoric, attempts to subvert democracy (not only via Facebook but through WhatsApp use as well (and not just in the United States, see also Brazil)), and probably more I’m not thinking of.
Maybe a stupid question, but I’m a noob so bear with me.
I mean…can’t they already scrub our comments and gain information from them? It’s not as if places like lemmy.world are at all private. They are publicly viewable to anyone…you don’t even need an account.
I’m no cybersecurity expert but there is definitely more info involved with posting to Threads. I might be able to get a little info on you from looking at your comment but I can’t tell things like your IP address. If you commented to my server though I absolutely could.
