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Threads deepens its ties to the open social web, aka the ‘fediverse’ (techcrunch.com)
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"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."

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago (44 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

Defedding from threads always seems strange to me. Everyone says it's to protect your data from meta. But they can always get your data. Everything on the fediverse is public. They already have your data.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

@Dirk @MrScottyTay Also I think that one should ask the question, what Meta could do with the data and what it is doing with the data of their users. For their users they use the usage data to present them a feed that the users appreciate. Also they use it to place ads inside of their apps. Also they use the data to serve you ads outside of their system on ad networks that use data from Meta.

All of this is technically not possible for Fediverse users.

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