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That being said, I acknowledge and agree that moderation is poor, which is, once again, why you should federate. To let people know they don’t need Meta. To show them how to escape the exploitation and harassment.

You’re gonna have to break this down for me, because I’m not seeing the logic.

So I’m a Threads user. I now start seeing Beehaw posts in my feed. Let’s say that I’m seeing them alongside Threads-originating posts containing “exploitation and harassment”. How does my seeing those Beehaw posts in Threads automatically translate to thinking, “I should leave Threads and join- not Beehaw, which is federated, but another, non-federated instance”?

Or are you advocating for individuals in non-Threads Fediverse instances to do some kind of manual outreach campaign?

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helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That’s not how it works. What you see is conversations on other ad-free spy-free platforms that give you actual control over what appears in your feed, while simultaneously giving you access to all the people and orgs you know and love on Meta.

I doubt Threads is supporting communities so you probably won’t stumble across Lemmy convos, much like you don’t stumble across them on Mastodon.

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- t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  ad-free spy-free platforms that give you actual control over what appears in your feed
  
  You won’t know any of those are ad-free or spy-free (which is not true anyways, fediverse instances are absolutely being scraped), or know you could control those if you left Threads. All you’ll know is, "I like this thing I’m seeing in Threads, so to see more of it, I should use Threads more.
  
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  - helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    You won’t know any of those are ad-free or spy-free
    
    Because Google is so expensive?
    
    which is not true anyways, fediverse instances are absolutely being scraped
    
    Scraping public data is entirely different from collecting your contact history, location history, web browsing traffic, decrypting WhatsApp traffic, etc. etc. and on and on.
    
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    t3rmit3@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    collecting your contact history, location history, web browsing traffic
    
    Fediverse instances can also do this. They know your IP and email, and the stuff you reveal about yourself. You could de-anonymize many users with those plus the info they share about themselves on here, with a bit of OSINT work.
    
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