I think it's pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.

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[+] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz -10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I'm copying pasta from my previous reply on other post

Once they can interact with your account, they can pull your data into their server and analyzing it to deliver ads campaign.

Just look at this

They can connect the point of interest based on their users interactions with other users on other instances. It doesn't matter even if you don't use their apps, they just need to connect the points.

Whenever an account from Threads upvote/ downvote or reply to your comments/posts or vice versa, Meta will analyze that and they can sell ads based on your political leanings, gender, geo-location, hobbies, marital status etc.

That's the options from what I saw on fb ads dashboard years ago. If you're from US, that options are broader and more detailed.

[–] ethan@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think you’re fundamentally misunderstanding how data is handled in federated systems. When an account from Threads interacts with your post or you interact with a Threads post, information is exchanged exclusively through Actions sent between the servers- never to or from your or their client and another server. It looks like this:

Client <=API=> Instance <=Action=> Instance <=API=> Client

They don’t get any information that isn’t already available publicly to any random user on your instance- no IP address or anything otherwise. Threads’ mobile app data collection has no bearing on their ability to collect information on you.

Edit: To be clear- there is theoretically a set of protocols in the ActivityPub spec that allows for direct client to server communication (unimaginatively called ActivityPub Client-to-Server), but it hasn’t been adopted by any current Fediverse software implementation that I’m aware of.

[–] infinitepcg@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

What a wild conspiracy theory.

Legally, they can't collect and process any of the data unless you accepted a contract with them. Just by sending an upvote or a comment to their instance, you don't agree to any of this.

And if they choose to ignore the law and just do it anyway, they still can't, because all they have is the data that your instance sends them. They don't have your geo-location, device Id, etc.

[–] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am not getting it. If i am not using their threads client and signed in to a de federating instance, they would not get my IP address right?

[–] ethan@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

They wouldn’t be able to get it even from a federated instance as long as you don’t use their frontend.