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Reposting this from Threads, as people there were asking why some mastodon admins were defederating, and many there found it inexplicable, or even petulant: The fediverse (and all open systems) are about giving people choices, and giving communities power. Being able to block Facebook/Meta from connecting is a *demonstration* of that power …
So, maybe you can 'splain me something about the threads federation controversy.
People act as if following someone on Threads will somehow subject their personal timeline to Meta's advertising and suggested (toxic) content. That seems… incorrect? What am I missing?
If I follow a user on a Mastodon server or on Threads, I will only be seeing what they post or boost, not what their follows post and not ads or suggested posts that Meta injects into their timeline on their Threads account. Right?
I see a lot of discussion here that seems to suggest that if a Mastodon user follows someone on Threads, Meta will be able to inject whatever content they want into your personal timeline here. Am I missing something?
I understand there are plenty of reasons to not associate with Meta at all because it is such a toxic company that never, under any circumstances, has any of our best interests in mind. But here I'm just referring to the technical aspects that seem to confuse a lot of people (maybe me?).
@Mikal @anildash I’m not concerned about that, only about the fact that they’ll probably record every interaction I have with threads users and their posts. And given Meta have supposedly long kept “shadow profiles” of people who aren’t even using and opted in to their products, that might mean Meta would keep my interaction info and try to use it to serve me ads elsewhere (not on Mastodon, I don’t see how they’d inject ads here).
I don’t know how well founded this fear is.