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Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time (www.theverge.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

you can choose an instance that does it for you.

Already done.

They’re getting access to your your lemmy content either way.

That's not an argument for cooperating with them.

That’s not at all what I’m talking about.

But it's what matters, and it is what the person you originally replied to was talking about. (Edit- it's not what they were talking about, I thought you'd replied to a different comment. The rest of my point stands.)

Whether I personally see Threads stuff does not relate to whether Meta can and will create an inflection point that distorts the fediverse into something different than it is today. Nothing in their history points in any direction OTHER than - we'll all be making another exodus at some point, to get away from them and companies like them.

Edit: I say again - literally no upside to federating with Threads for anyone except Meta.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You're free to not federate with them but due to the open nature of the fediverse there's nothing you can do to stop them from federating with you. What ever you post they have access to.

Still. This has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

due to the open nature of the fediverse there’s nothing you can do to stop them from federating with you.

Federation doesn't mean "can scrape your data"

Still. This has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

OK.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They can scape your post history. Anyone can. You can only prevent this by not postin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

They can scape your post history. Anyone can.

I know that, but it's not what "Federate" means.

In any case, I'm doubtful we have common ground in any area here to try building on, and it feels like we have been talking past each other this entire time, so this will be my final participation in this interaction with you. Good day.