I’ve seen a lot of comments suggesting Threads should be pre-emptively defederated by Lemmy/kbin instances if it tries to join us. I’m a bit confused what the problem would be. When Meta does its usual corporate bullshit over at Threads, how would that hurt a user or community based on Lemmy.world? If anything, wouldn’t it give the fediverse a boost if Threads users start discovering communities outside of Meta’s control?

I presume I’m missing something, as you can probably tell I don’t fully understand how Lemmy, Threads or federation all work.

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    1 year ago

    Will Meta mine user data on a device via its app, or just what is entered on the app? That hasn’t been clearly laid out. Meaning, will it look at, say, activity on a bank app or health provider app or pharmacy app on the same device as Threads? Does FB/IG/WhatsApp take device data?