Threads, Meta’s new microblogging platform, is updating its terms to focus on data collection from “Third Party Users”.

  • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Kbin collects all of that same info from Lemmy and vice versa (except for IP, which I don’t think would ever be shared to begin with?).

    The literal entire point of the fediverse is to share content in a public and interoperable way, so why are you surprised that a fediverse client would be collecting profile pictures and posts, when that’s exactly what you’d need to do in order to display them?

    Like, if you simply have no trust in Meta at all and refuse to interact with them, that’s fine, but just say that and don’t pretend it’s because of the horror of displaying usernames.

    • DavidB@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      This is the right answer.

      Collecting profile pics, posts, likes, and so on, is basically what is needed to federate. If they don’t collect that, they can’t display things from other instances.
      And guess what our instances will collect the same data from Threads to be able to display stuff from there…