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how to block meta from mastodon (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Meta should stay away from fediverse!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yeah, not a fan of the ominous shadow threads™️ casts. I don't trust them not to flood the fediverse with assorted toxic garbage to push people back towards their walled garden platforms.

The fediverse offers something radical - a new shot at genuine self determination and a socialised, self-governing internet. That shit spells B-A-D N-E-W-S for incumbent platforms (imo) and they're bad actors in general; they wouldn't think twice about smothering anything that threatens their short/long term profits. Who'se going to stop them?

Might be a little bit overly risk concious but goddamn. If I were them, I'd be trying to kill alternative ecosystems before they grew - especially if mine (metas) is both trash to use, and be used by.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even worse, the Threads app is a privacy nightmare

I bet meta really wants to keep track of people in fediverse

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

What does "Other Data" even cover? Could be literally anything Meta wants

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I bet your DNA profile is part of the "other data". /s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Technically genetic information is covered by 'sensitive info.' I'm not joking.

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

ActivityPub is no more radical than NNTP. Lemmy is almost an exact reimplementation of newsgroups

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

It will be a reimplementation of usenet when I can turn text into 0 day warez.