This shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.

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[+] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
  • [–] [S] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Technically, yes, you save metadata of all of those things. However: you are not a company that profits from vast amounts of data ingestion.

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    However: you are not a company that profits from vast amounts of data ingestion.

    The entire current Fediverse isn't vast data by Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple standards.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    You aren't making the point you think you're making. Sure, at somewhere between 8 to 11 million accounts, the Fediverse is a small pond. Meta is a gigantic whale. Ingesting the entire graph of everyone on the network would be relatively trivial for them, storage-wise.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Altering the language of a service policy (or, writing a new one) is usually a good indication that something is indeed about to change at a larger level.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm gonna play Devil's Advocate here...

    What's to stop them from scraping the Fediverse without federating? If they really want the data, they could very well find a way. At least they're spelling it out here and announced an attempt at proper federation.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    The article discusses this, a bit. One of the other platforms is considering an enhancement to require request signatures on non-ActivityPub APIs, I.E. Meta can make unsigned requests, where the server doesn't know who they're from, but only get minimal (or no) data back, or Meta can make signed requests, and instance owners get to decide what data (if any) they're okay with sharing to Meta, based on Meta's privacy policies. Beyond API's, you're talking about web scraping, which is something the industry has been handling for decades.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Ip address is only sent to a users home server though.

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    I wouldn't put it past them to put tracking images into posts though. Either way... I wouldn't be happy on a server that is connected to threads.

    Speaking of which... I see lemmy world see still hasn't defederated from Threads. I guess it's time for me to kill my account here.

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    I might end up using a personal instance as well. But in that case I'll probably end up with an instance whitelist, rather than defederating from disliked ones.

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    Ah, bummer. I thought I'd be in the clear because we're having this conversation on Lemmy.ml. Thanks for straightening me out.

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