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Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough to protect your privacy once they join the fediverse

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At least, not with today's software.

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Maybe I'm just shortsighted but this article is saying something to the effect of, even if you blocked meta if any of your followers haven't then meta can access your public profile or posts.

So? It's public. Who cares? You've blocked them, they can't talk to you, and it's all already available on your own instance, they don't need threads to see it. So what's the problem?

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- So? It’s public. Who cares?
  
  People who are frequently targeted by harassers care, such as trans people. People on Threads will be able to find trans people in the fediverse and harass them by creating accounts on the same instance as the trans person to get around the block.
  
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  It's the fundamental flaw in the fediverse. I don't see any way to fix it. It's sort of like wanting to leave the US and for your own country and then consider that they are no Police or governing bodies to prevent bad actors from hurting people. Well yea...
  
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People saying they had to defederate to protect their privacy were always fucking dumb in thinking that affected anything anyway. There is practically no downside to federating that doesn't already exist eitherway. Although it matters more for mastodon than lemmy but the benefits of federating (more users, more content, more friends etc.) outweigh the negatives in my opinion.

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- In my opinion they do not. When considering the meta userbase we really should spend more time thinking about the quality of those potential new additions than the sheer quantity. Right now, many things that make typical social media so annoying and uninteresting to me are not notably present on the fediverse.
  
  No overt narcissism, less tiktok content, less utterly mediocre people talking into their camera about the most average and uninteresting things imaginable. In comparison the culture here is friendly and nerdy. I don’t think it will be improved by a massive influx of shallow, vapid crap.
  
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