You might downvote this, go ahead, I know you hate proprietary goods, but just listen.
Is anyone excited to see that Threads is soon to federate with us on to the fediverse? I know I am, and this is becuase I can communicate with my family from Lemmy or Mastodon as I mainly use these two platforms. I am also not saying that Threads is good, its a bad platform in terms of privacy, and Meta is notoriously shitty in terms of user data collection. I’m making this post because I was just wondering if there is someone out there like me who likes the move what Meta is doing with Threads in federating with us. We just got to be aware and be cautious and get ready because we might “spam” Threads.
I’m also not trying to get on the wrong foot, I’m just in love with Free Software, and seeing Lemmy here and discovering the Fediverse is so amazing to me. I love it already and am going to stay on it for most of my online journey.
Thoughts?
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Thank you, this explains the risks very well.
If Meta was acting in good faith, I might be on board with it. But we know they are not.
As we saw happen with Google, even if they were practicing “don’t be evil”, greed and share prices will always corrupt that original intention.
Federation protects from many things but not all things. If we federated with Meta it would play out as you describe. If you have a nice bar or restaurant, and then you go into business with the mob, it’s no longer your bar or restaurant. It’s a little bit like that.