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.

  • "no" banana
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    42 years ago

    So they’ll grab what is needed to federate? The same stuff every instance grabs?

    • Sean TilleyOPM
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      142 years ago

      Ostensibly, yes. However, as a company whose business model is primarily predicated on sale of personal data and analytics, this does create something of a conflict of interest, especially because of Meta’s extensive involvement in surveillance capitalism.

      Per the article, I really like Mike Macgirvin’s stance of “I’ll give you the bare minimum of data to make basic interactions work, but not one thing more.”

      • "no" banana
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        32 years ago

        I mean yeah, I get the implications there, but all I’m saying is that they wouldn’t be able to federate without the info so it makes sense.