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helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months agoThat’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.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 7 months ago
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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Because Google is so expensive?
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.
t3rmit3@beehaw.org 7 months ago
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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Do you have reason to believe any of that is happening?
Bruh your Facebook username is literally my first and last name. Same goes for most people on most platforms. I don’t particularly care about anonymity.
I’ve never used a Fediverse app that asked for any of that. They have no use for it.
You don’t seem to understand the myriad of data that Facebook collects unnecessarily and without user consent. Do a search for Facebook Pixels. They were just caught decrypting traffic from SnapChat. Most Fediverse servers are far too small to even bother with collecting and selling that sort of data.
The two are not even remotely comparable.