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The fediverse is discussing if we should defederate from Meta's new Threads app. Here's why I probably won't (for now).

(Federation between plume and my lemmy instance doesn't work correctly at the moment, otherwise I would have made this a proper crosspost)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you want Facebook to do to us what Google did to XMPP???

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yup they can mess up the fediverse in the near future

https://fabulous.systems/posts/2023/06/meta-is-a-danger-to-the-fediverse/

https://fediversereport.com/meta-plans-on-joining-the-fediverse-the-responses/

And there's Google's with their new privacy policy states that it can use publicly available data to help train its AI models

https://www.engadget.com/googles-updated-privacy-policy-states-it-can-use-public-data-to-train-its-ai-models-095541684.html

They only cares about money and unlimited growth.