On: Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privac...

[w0m]

So you want the information to be free! But not free to those guys over there. Ever so slightly hypocritical.

[klabb3 → w0m]

That’s a bit of an overstatement. I can want an open neighborhood but still be creeped out when a neighbor puts up a camera facing my house.

Systemic data collection and casual access aren’t equal.

That said, on these protocols you can’t control it anyway, so it’s not like you can stop it.

[MBCook → klabb3]

But it’s Mastodon. It’s ALL posted online without a paywall.

They could have been scraping it for years (if they cared) and you’d never know.

Federating won’t give them anything new except DMs to their users since those aren’t encrypted.

All the existing stuff you’ve posted publicly is already public.

[kazinator → MBCook]

Not all; your IP address and e-mail aren't posted, for instance.

Meta will find a way to get their hands on that.