The specificity and quantity of information the text and multimedia platform can access poses a risk to most users, if it falls into the wrong hands or is used to target them, tech experts agree.
“This is a hacker’s dream,” said Claudette McGowan, a longtime banking executive who founded Protexxa, a Toronto-based platform that uses artificial intelligence to rapidly identify and resolve cyber issues for employees.
All of the data Meta could gather by federating is available to anyone who sets up their own server. The hacker would just need to know how to use docker. What’s scary is the extra information Threads users give away by being on threads.
and that alone is worth not supporting such a gross company via never federating with them
It’s not lurking I care about. I don’t want to be interacting with them at all or providing any sort of comments for them to respond to. You know… Same reason people deleted their content from reddit so it doesn’t provide future engagement to the platform through comment responses, upvotes/downvotes, and search engine results.
And I have way less issue with Reddit and chose to delete stuff to remove interactable content on their platform. And I actually do like reddit compared to Facebook, and still chose to burn bridges that way. So I think it’s no surprise why I don’t want federation with them. If they want to lurk and scrape public data that’s fine. I don’t want to be a contributor to Meta though more directly than I have to.
Yeah, that’s fair enough. I just wanted to point out it’s not our data that will be in jeopardy any more than it is right.
I never have an expectation of privacy when it comes to content posted on any public platform.
It’s being part of the audience that engages and provides content that leads to feedback loop to stay in the Meta platform I’m so completely against. If people want to do a direct link to unfederated instances on Meta I’m fully for that to encourage people to make a non Meta account and maybe move towards joining those instances.
But, being actually part of the same interacting group that is choosing to feed into the value of Meta. No thanks.
that extra information is among other things: