@AvonVilla If you want to de-federate from Threads due to moral and ethical reasons, that’s fair. I mention this because many people believe de-federation prevents data scraping – which is not true.
AvonVilla@aus.social 1 month ago
@atomicpoet @fediversenews The fact that meta has the resources to do this sort of thing and leverage all its other data exploitation, makes me support defederating from Threads even more.
atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org 1 month ago
BeAware@social.beaware.live 1 month ago
@AvonVilla @atomicpoet @fediversenews that's the thing.... ANYONE can do those things. It doesn't take lots of money to view RSS feeds or make something automated to store data from RSS feeds....anyone can do any of these things at any time.
If you're not okay with literally anyone getting your data, the only option you have is to make your profile private.
AvonVilla@aus.social 1 month ago
@BeAware @atomicpoet @fediversenews Yes I understand that public data is public. Federation is much more than that, it supercharges the value of data which flows from the fediverse to meta, allowing meta to exploit it in ways I find abhorrent, and in ways which are beyond the means of everyone else. Meta's tactics should be illegal but they are allowed. They have too much power as it is, I came here to avoid giving them more power, and now they are coming for me anyway.
BeAware@social.beaware.live 1 month ago
@AvonVilla @atomicpoet @fediversenews you literally were SO close to my point, but missed it....
ANYONE can do federation and "steal" your data. Nobody has to make an account that shows who they really are. I can make an account with all kinds of lies and fake info, then follow anyone I want and use their posts however I want and they wouldn't have a clue....
AvonVilla@aus.social 1 month ago
@BeAware @atomicpoet @fediversenews On the specific comment "anyone can do federation", remember too, that anyone can do defederation. MY point is that it should be done in the case of meta.
I'm happy that the instance I'm on has gone down that path.