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  • Twitches@lemm.ee
    241·
    3 days ago

    I think if lemmy disappears I’m going to give up on the internet. Basically just use it for the necessary things that I need it for.

  • Unmapped@lemmy.ml
    159·
    3 days ago

    Can someone explain why so many comments saying this is bad and want their instances to block threads? Seems like it would be a good thing to make the fediverse bigger and more accessible.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      3 days ago

      In short, Facebook are incentivised to increase conflict and hate, it improves user engagement. They have also leveraged their large user base to boost numbers in threads significantly. Threads is already a cess pip of bigotry and hate.

      Federating with them would be like connecting your house’s drinking water pipe with the sewage pipe of an industrial pig farm. It would pollute our community to the point of destruction.

      They might try and control this initially. Unfortunately, it would almost certainly be part of an embrace, extend, extinguish attempt. ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish ). They play nice till they have control of enough communities, then they stop the controls, to increase profits.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      19·
      3 days ago

      Why would they need threads for that? A whole bunch of companies are already doing that without running actual social media services.

      They can analyse your likes and you wouldn’t even know it. All they need to do is follow the same servers you do here on Lemmy. On Mastodon they can set up a basic puppet domain, follow every user they can find, and then your Mastodon server will deliver your posts, likes, and re-tweet for them, no scraping or interaction necessary.

      If you’re trying not to get analysed, the Fediverse is not for you. It’s simply not designed for privacy.

      • infeeeee@lemm.ee
        1·
        3 days ago

        Afaik on lemmy only your host instance knows what you upvote/downvote, instances just sync the number of upvotes, not the users who voted. So they cannot analyze that, even if they spin up a their own lemmy instance l was wrong, see reply

        Comments are 100% public though, that’s true

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
          2·
          3 days ago

          Votes federate, but only for communities followed. I won’t see your votes in a community that I don’t follow, but I can see when you upvoted or downvoted what post in the community.

          A scraper could simply follow every community on a Lemmy server and, barring Lemmy performance issues, will receive all comments and votes.

          Just a quick and dirty SQL query of which votes of yours are in my server’s database:

          select comment_like.score as score,comment_like.published as when, person.actor_id as who, comment.ap_id as what from comment_like join person on person.id = comment_like.person_id join comment on comment.id = comment_like.comment_id where person.actor_id = 'https://lemmy.ml/u/GolfNovemberUniform' order by comment_like.published desc;

          The same info is also available for posts, of course, I just didn’t want to bother making the query any longer.

          Server admins/mods on Lemmy also have a button to see who upvoted and downvoted each post. This is just the inverse of that.

          • infeeeee@lemm.ee
            1·
            3 days ago

            I see, so all instance admins can see that theoretically, but regular users can’t. I don’t remember where I read what I wrote, can’t find it now.

            It’s a bit misleading that lemmy developers themself call votes “essentially anonymous” like in this issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4088

            With this in mind I will go back to upvote memes with my other accounts, and switch between them more regularly.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
          3·
          3 days ago

          Seems to me like they just want to greenwash (open wash?) their company by making it work with others. Saves a hell of a lot of trouble with legislators when it comes to stuff like the Digital Markets Act.

          I’m sure they’re selling ads to their users, but I think that’s about it. There’s no money to be made analysing random internet accounts if you can’t show them ads when you’re big enough for EU regulators to care.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms, the company announced on Tuesday.

    Previously, if you made a post on Threads that was syndicated to another platform like Mastodon, you wouldn’t be able to see responses to that post while still inside Threads.

    That meant you’d have to bounce back and forth between the platforms to stay up-to-date on replies.

    Thanks to this upgrade, you’ll probably do less of that, but in a screenshot, Meta notes that you can’t reply to replies “yet,” so it sounds like that feature will arrive in the future.

    Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg also revealed that Threads’ fediverse integration will be available starting today in more than 100 countries, a significant expansion from its initial availability in the US, Canada, and Japan.

    Meta has been vocal about its plans to integrate with the decentralized social networking protocol ActivityPub since launching Threads nearly a year ago, with first testing starting in December.

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