• warmaster@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    They might be talking about data harvesting and revenue generation driven from federated sources.

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      11 months ago

      If you mean from the Fediverse side, it’s not really possible. At least not from Mastodon.

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        11 months ago

        People have this misunderstanding, if they add ads, it will be for users of #threads, other servers will not see the ad. What about if they inject an ad to every post? That would make no sense, their income come from ads, but personalized ads, you probably hate them, but tons of people find them useful, besides they won’t be able to have metrics for a wall of text or image at the bottom of every post for others in the #fediverse.

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          11 months ago

          If you follow someone on threads, they’ll only get your username, server name, profile pic, and server IP. That’s the same thing any remote instance gets. They’ll know if you like/share/comment on their content because you’d be telling them. Besides that, they can’t know anything. They only interact directly with your server, so they won’t even be able to tell if you see or click anything you’re subscribed to. In order to track you, they’d have to get info from your server (that isn’t collecting it to begin with). They also don’t have a reliable way to connect the sliver of data collected to an identity to serve ads to.

          Really, the only reason they can collect as much about their users as they do is that they control their servers.

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        11 months ago

        If your instance chooses to federate with them, how wouldn’t it be possible for them to process that data?

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          11 months ago

          From my post below: "If you follow someone on threads, they’ll only get your username, server name, profile pic, and server IP. That’s the same thing any remote instance gets. They’ll know if you like/share/comment on their content because you’d be telling them. Besides that, they can’t know anything. They only interact directly with your server, so they won’t even be able to tell if you see or click anything you’re subscribed to. In order to track you, they’d have to get info from your server (that isn’t collecting it to begin with). They also don’t have a reliable way to connect the sliver of data collected to an identity to serve ads to.

          Really, the only reason they can collect as much about their users as they do is that they control their servers."