I know that many people are concerned about “Threads” privacy policy and are all screaming “WE WILL BLOCK THREADS”. I honestly can’t see how it’s going to gather any personal information since Lemmy, mastodon etc. doesn’t collect any information at all. Like, how can you gather information about user, if he doesn’t have any information about himself. Sure, Threads will collect info about its users, that’s obvious, but I think it’s a bad idea to just block it from the start

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    1 year ago

    Finally someone else sharing my stance!

    I totally agree. Even if this is what Meta is planning,and it probably is, getting everyone to defederate now just means we’re skipping to the “extinguish” phase.

    Meta doesn’t care about leeching users from us, we barely have enough users to show up on their radar. Meanwhile there are plenty of people who want to see what’s happening in Threads without selling their souls to Meta, which is a perfect chance for other Fediverse instances to step in and add more users.