Meta has made their little darling, Threads, able to inter-connect to the Fediverse. That is, Threads will now connect with services such as Mastodon or Pixelfed. Why does this matter? Well, read and weep. I’ll provide links below, the pictures tell the main story, but basically it is as follows:
- Once the Threads Service has been integrated with the Protocol:
- you will be able to access, upload, share, and/or interact with content and information, to and from the broader community of individuals using Third Party Services;
- Meta will share your content and information with Third Party Users via Third Party Services when: (1) you follow, or are followed by, a Third Party User, (2) you interact with content from or accounts/profiles of a Third Party User, or (3) a Third Party User interacts with your content or profile.
- Meta is not responsible for the operation of this Protocol.
https://help.instagram.com/769983657850450
In addition, you agree to let Meta use your content.
“you hereby grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate and create derivative works of your Threads Content (consistent with your privacy and application settings) for the purpose of making the Threads Service available, including, as applicable, sharing your Threads Content to and with Third Party Users and on Third Party Services that are also integrated with the Protocol.”
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Please do not share your content to me via Threads. I will be blocking any content coming from a Threads server.
Sorry/Not Sorry.
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