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I think the OP and most of the commenters here are missing the point. Meta threat is not about killing AP or Mastodon. It's about mining your data and spying on

I think the OP and most of the commenters here are missing the point. Meta threat is not about killing AP or Mastodon. It's about mining your data and spying on you. That AP is an open standard doesn't change anything. It's exactly like SMTP and gmail. Sure, gmail did not kill the emails, they are still here, it's still decentralized. But eh, when you're sending an email with vacations pictures to your friend, it's enough that a single one of them is using gmail for Google to have everything. The content, the addresses, build a social graph of everyone, and mine, mine, mine the data to spread more ads or share it with the governments or... Threads is the exact same threat. If only one of my friend is using it, everything that I write will be received and processed by Meta. And I don't want that. Until now, I was able to tell to my non tech friends, come on my mastodon server, and I knew we would have privacy. Now I will have to explain to everyone that if they don't want their data to be analyzed, they should not add a contact from Thread. The fediverse was a safe space. Now we have to constantly be on guard again, and this exhausting.

flaburgan 3y ago
Btw if a lawyer is around, I would be curious to know how legally they can store my messages on their server (because technically that's how Activity pub is working) while I did not accept any terms and conditions... I guess there is something like "while connecting with a Thread user you accept that we store your data", but because I don't have an account I did not accept those conditions... In the end, Solid is a much better approach than AP or diaspora, kudos to Tim Berners Lee
- simfree 3y ago
  If you choose to have a public account on the fediverse or let someone from another server follow you, you are granting the right to duplicate your data and store it on the other server. How that data can be processed for a private account is a gray area, but you have authority to determine whether your content is public, and if it is not public who is allowed to see it.
kevincox 3y ago
Unless you have a private profile they can scoop up all of that data whether or not you have a Threads follower. If you do have a provide profile it is pretty easy to deny follow requests to people subscribing from Threads. I don't think this is a major issue, it can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis by the owners of private profiles.

flaburgan 3y ago

Btw if a lawyer is around, I would be curious to know how legally they can store my messages on their server (because technically that's how Activity pub is working) while I did not accept any terms and conditions... I guess there is something like "while connecting with a Thread user you accept that we store your data", but because I don't have an account I did not accept those conditions... In the end, Solid is a much better approach than AP or diaspora, kudos to Tim Berners Lee

simfree 3y ago
If you choose to have a public account on the fediverse or let someone from another server follow you, you are granting the right to duplicate your data and store it on the other server. How that data can be processed for a private account is a gray area, but you have authority to determine whether your content is public, and if it is not public who is allowed to see it.

kevincox 3y ago

Unless you have a private profile they can scoop up all of that data whether or not you have a Threads follower. If you do have a provide profile it is pretty easy to deny follow requests to people subscribing from Threads. I don't think this is a major issue, it can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis by the owners of private profiles.