• prole@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    Hey guys, I’m sure Meta’s intentions with the fediverse are pure though! Really!

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      10 months ago

      I mean, pure? No. But also not at all linked to this topic. They can get fediverse data whether or not they are federated.

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            10 months ago

            Prole believes those are the same thing.

            Meta doesn’t get any real data from federating Threads that they can’t get right now by just running a web scraper over it. Most of the dire worries presented are either not something they could actually do (like forcing ads on other instances), are things individual users could just block the instance to avoid, or are things that could be resolved by just defederating them later if they seem to be going down that road.

            The biggest realistic threat is probably an Eternal September 2.0 scenario, but that is going to happen if and when Lemmy becomes popular.