this post was submitted on 29 Aug 2024
112 points (91.2% liked)

Fediverse

17724 readers
3 users here now

A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.

Fediverse is a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe".

Getting started on Fediverse;

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
112
Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
99 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

"Threads is deepening its ties to the fediverse, also known as the open social web, which powers services like X alternative Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, Flipboard and other apps. On Wednesday, Meta announced that users on Threads will be able to see fediverse replies on other posts besides their own. In addition, posts that originated through the Threads API, like those created via third-party apps and scheduling services, will now be syndicated to the fediverse. The latter had previously been announced via an in-app message informing users that API posts would be shared to the fediverse starting on August 28."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 months ago (49 children)

Daily reminder to defederate from and block threads.net (and optionally all instances that do not do the same).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (23 children)

Maybe we should do a reverse embrace-extend-extinguish where we open everything up until the point that they start introducing ads to enshittify the platform. Then after that great migration say goodbye to them

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (22 children)

They can't place ads in your feeds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They can still train ML models (create profit) from the data they get from you without consent.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They can do that no matter if I federate with them or not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And in one of those cases they are violating a very clear "this is not okay" signal, and in the other they are not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They're already training on that data. No signals of relevance here.

load more comments (20 replies)
load more comments (20 replies)
load more comments (45 replies)