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I think they’re talking about Meta doxing anonymous users on Mastodon. That is, by having Threads join the fediverse they can pull in information about anonymou
by chongli 3y ago
I think they’re talking about Meta doxing anonymous users on Mastodon. That is, by having Threads join the fediverse they can pull in information about anonymous users on other Mastodon servers and match it up with Facebook and Instagram accounts, linking them and potentially unmasking them.
- not2b 3y agoThey could do that just as easily without federation (and in fact they already do: they've been found to create "shadow users" from people who aren't even Facebook/Instagram users from the tracking cookies they've gotten lots of sites to add, and they plug in all that info if that person later joins Facebook or Instagram). I can't think of anything they can find out if federation is turned on that they can't find if federation is turned off. Even if there were some info that could only be obtained by being in the federation (and I can't think of anything but I might be wrong), that's easy enough: just create some small instances that don't identify as Meta or Threads and have the users of those instances follow people on all the large instances.