threads/meta meta
So this is something I've been wondering about the whole "defederate with Threads" thing.
Obviously, *using* Threads is a huge privacy hit. It enables Facebook's surveillance of how many milliseconds you spend looking at which brand adverts and who you've called on the phone and how long and how long you browse each day and when and etc etc.
re: threads/meta meta
It seems to me that people should be encouraging federation with Threads as a solution to Threads' issues…? like
•you get a reverse chronological timeline, of only and exactly the accounts you follow
•no tracking bullshit
•no spyware
•Meta only sees the explicit interactions you make with Threads users, just like any other cross-instance federation
What's the actual argument for defederation?
re: threads/meta meta
…but what's the harm in having an instance federate with Threads?
Say I spin up my own ActivityPub instance and I federate it with Threads. Now I can see the content that's posted there and reply to the people I follow who are there, but I control the way the timeline is presented rather than meta's algorithm, and meta no longer gets their metadata on my device or how I use their platform.