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Worth noting that Meta through threads currently plans to collect and monetize the data of all users that it federates with.
Worth noting. Anyone could already be doing this without threads.
IANAL, but I'm not sure that's legal everywhere facebook operates.
Have you any idea how many billions Facebook has been fined for this shit.
Capitalists don't care if something is legal or not. Just how much the fine will impact their bottom line. And if anyone can prove it. I 100 percent guarantee you that every major tech company is technically in violation of the GDPR etc. it's just a matter of whether or not it will ever be provable enough to be actionable.
The data is out there. Meta does not need threads to scrape it is the basic thing to take away.
It's publicly sitting on the internet.
That's actually the most interesting concern I've seen raised about this. I hadn't thought about that. The embrace, extend, extinguish thing is what you see most people raise as a issue.
All your stuff is already public on the internet without any special access being granted. If they want the convenience of receiving ActivityPub packets and metadata, they can just stand up a honeypot instance and some fake accounts. The Fediverse isn't built for privacy.
They don't need ActivityPub for that. Nearly everything on the fediverse is public and scrapable. If they want to monetize fediverse data, they already can
that's even worse than I imagined it :O
They don't need to federate to do that.
Meta also doesn't need to federate in order to do that, since federation just accesses public data.