So from my understanding, I can block an instance which prevents it from showing in my feed.
However, if the instance I post to (.world) is not blocked on the receiving instance’s end (Meta), they will still get my post (unless defederated)?
If so, doesn’t that open up the idea that Meta will be able to scrape and take ALL the data from ALL the (still federated) instances’ posts that are not blocked by the Meta instance(s)? How can I protect my information from Meta while still being federated, or is that not possible?
They can do it anyway, without threads being in the mix at all. Unfortunately the only way to be sure no corporation can scrape your data is to not be on the internet at all.
Ahh, very true, but aren’t there legal obligations regarding privacy if data is collected via a site vs the public web?
OpenAI is currently being sued because they used everything they could fin to train their AI models. We will see how that works out.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/28/tech/openai-chatgpt-microsoft-data-sued/index.html
If you post publicly on the internet, your post is publicly available on the internet. Anyone can read it. Everything that can be read can also be scraped.
So they don’t need Threads to scrape all Lemmy data. Or to be more precise, if they wanted to scrape Lemmy data, they would most likely do it separately from Threads.
Always have been.
Push your local legislation to change the law in favor of consumer data protection and not infinite growing company profits.
They always could? These are public facing platforms. You’re being scraped by far more than just meta.
Yeah, absolutely nothing was preventing them from doing so already, without launching Threads.
Blocking Meta / Threads instances isn’t going to stop them, either.
