Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse
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Threads, Meta's new microblogging platform, is updating its terms to focus on data collection from "Third Party Users".

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.

  • Durotar@lemmy.ml
    15·
    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t generally consider my IP to username to be public.

    Are they talking about your IP address or the service’s? Does ActivityPub even share the user’s IP address with other nodes in the network? That’d be crazy, so I assume that it doesn’t. Then Meta can’t find out your IP address.

    • Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org
      16·
      1 year ago

      Does ActivityPub even share the user’s IP address with other nodes in the network?

      No this is not in the specification.

      A malicious instance could in theory distribute this information but it would be non-standard. Of the 2 systems I’ve studied - Mastodon and Lemmy - neither do this.

      Are they talking about your IP address or the service’s?

      In this scenario they would be talking about the IP address(es) of the services.