If you set a #Threads profile to followers-only, then write a post that tags someone who doesn't follow you — not replying to their post, just a plain old post that tags them — can that person see what you wrote?
(Not advocating for Threads, am just trying to understand their privacy model.)
In his recent FediCon talk, Evan Prodromou implicitly rationalized his collaboration with Meta by proclaiming, "you don't negotiate with friends". Maybe not, but you don't hand enemies the keys to your kingdom either, which is exactly what he has done by giving Meta seats at the table of the ActivityPub working group. And for that matter, accepting a relatively significant sum of money from those enemies to fund your foundation goes rather beyond the negotiation phase as well, does it not?
As it stands, we have a hostile element enmeshed in the development process which undergirds the entire network, all the while systematically violating every last consent boundary the fedi has defined and defended over the course of its history. This is a power imbalance so egregious and amoral that it negates the raison d'etre of the fediverse altogether. Meta must be removed from SWICG
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The development process of the protocol is poisoned by the presence of Meta. Any significant revision the organization proposes will be perceived as an aspect of the Meta incursion, suspected and resisted, whatever its actual origin. The backlash to any perceived attempt by Meta to manipulate the backbone of the fedi could lead to an existential crisis.
Under these circumstances the only way to avoid such a backlash is to refrain from advancing protocol development at all, which is also unsustainable. The way out of this is the ejection of the Meta intruders from SWICG and any other working group which has an influence on the future of ActivityPub.
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We already know that the Social Web Foundation and SWICG leadership will ignore the latest news of Meta's mass datacrime against the fediverse and continue enabling the parasitic Zuckerberg entity to influence the future of ActivityPub development by facilitating its presence on the W3C working group overseeing AP. This is not a sustainable arrangement.
There is absolutely no basis of trust whatsoever between the fediverse network of communities and Meta. The idea that representatives of this slimy fascist operation are insinuated into the organization shaping the next generation of the protocol underlying our network, while they simultaneously inflict nonconsenual predatory "AI" extractivism against us, is ludicrous and intolerable. This right here is the destruction of every single value the fediverse claims to stand for in one fell swoop.
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: abbiamo defederato #Threads non perché pensiamo che così smettano di spiarci (sarebbe bello, eh!), ma solo perché… preferiamo non invitarli alla festa. 
Threads demonstrate why we couldn't trust them. chaos.social being one of the instances Zuckerbergs company scraped for LLama.
"Yes, that data can be scraped. Regardless if they can get at our messages, informed consent is important. If a bad actor gets our data without consent, it reveals that person should never have been trusted with it. We were right to not just hand it over, to federate it. " - me, Consent and the Fediverse , 2023
"By supporting the fedipact we are signalling that we don't consent to interacting with a known abusive actor who revels in their power. Mark Zuckerberg revealed that to us over a decade ago. He revealed what he can do with his power again and again.
You should not trust a company he owns with anything of you. Not your posts, not your contacts, not your metadata." Me - 2023
Unlike other #Fediverse servers, we didn't need to "wait and see" before preventing #Meta from using our community's content to train their #LLMs. When corporations show you who they are, believe them.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower
i'm gonna be editing that list as i think of more so be sure to view it directly on cyberpunk.lol to make sure you get the whole thingy
INSTANCES KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN SCRAPED BY META INCLUDE:
• mastodon.social
• mastodon.online
• tech.lgbt
• hackers.town
• chaos.social
• mastodon.org.uk
• mastodont.cat
• mastodon.de
• mastodon.xyz
• mastodon.coffee
• mastodon.cloud
• mastodon.scot
• mastodonapp.uk
• mastodon.green
• mastodon.ml
• mastodon.au
• mastodon.eus
• mastodonczech.cz
• mastodon.sdf.org
• mstdn.social
• troet.cafe
• techhub.social
• tchncs.de
• kolektiva.social
• mamot.fr
• defcon.social
• meow.social
• social.linux.pizza
• ioc.exchange
• eldritch.cafe
• yiff.life
• furry.engineer
• infosec.exchange
• blahaj.zone
• woof.group
• union.place
• queer.party
• sakurajima.moe
• pawb.social
• digipres.club
• journa.host
• corteximplant.net
• corteximplant.com
• octodon.social
• bitbang.social
• jorts.horse
• tenforward.social
• pnw.zone
• spore.social
• hear-me.social
• neuromatch.social
• vt.social
• cosocial.ca
• chitter.xyz
• tooter.social
• cloudisland.nz
• social.seattle.wa.us
• masto.es
• nobigtech.es
• mastodon.gal
• masto.host
• toot.community
• pony.social
• climatejustice.global
• pleroma.envs.net
• indiepocalypse.social
• anarchism.space
• disroot.org
• dragonscave.space
• toot.bike
• fuzzies.wtf
• norden.social
• beige.party
• ohai.social
• freeradical.zone
• metalhead.club
• treehouse.systems
• icosahedron.website
• sunbeam.city
• sunny.garden
• zeroes.ca
• ursal.zone
• chaosfem.tw
• mas.to
• mathstodon.xyz
• rubber.social
• todon.nl
• cupoftea.social
• nerdculture.de
• toad.social
there're definitely more, i just did ctrl+f when i thought of an instance name so i definitely missed some. will be editing this list to add them as i think of them
LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI (Including Many Fediverse Instances!!!)
"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."
ARTICLE: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower
FULL PDF: https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf
This is my Grandma's thread chest, one place she stored her spools of sewing thread. I brought it home with me from my Mom's this trip. I just emptied all the spools in a laundry basket (they were in no particular order, much to my surprise) and they still smell like her and her house. I'm very glad to have so many colors to choose from and I'm already using some of it in my latest embroidery project.
Threads pleasantly surprised me today. I really thought the comments on this vile, bigoted post from a Canadian racist were going to be equally vile and Twitter like. They weren't at all.
https://www.threads.com/@markslapinskitoronto/post/DM_6_NExhXx
My fedi feed won't load on #threads today, but maybe it's just me.
@adisonverlice good question.
Since you seem deep into the #ITsec / #InfoSec / #OpSec / #ComSec weeds I can recommend https://infosec.exchange (if you want your public posts be seen & indexable by #threads & others) or also https://infosec.space if you don't want that.
I do want add way more instances into my recommendation list but I didn't have time to.
Is #Threads still going?
Is it still even a thing?
I mean, like, wtf!
Is it still going?
Why would anyone do that?
"Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers "
"Ghost publications are now connected with an open network.
People can discover, follow, like and reply to your posts across #Bluesky, #Flipboard, #Threads, #Mastodon, #WordPress, #Ghost, and any other social web platform.
Distribution is now built-in."
hmm...
Mastodon wouldn't be a bit of an afterthought or anything. eh?
Or is Mastodon just another step toward Global Media Domination(tm)?
(Somebody hopes, anyway...)
cc @johnonolan
I still have a #Threads and #Instagram account for oslo.town and sometimes log in to see if I can lure people away and over to #Mastodon. 
Some people I follow from Instagram, seem to have enabled the option to "Also share on..." Threads. 
I saw this because they're sharing their personal photos of their kids and holidays and stuff on Insta and it cross-posts to Threads, publicly. 
I wonder if they know...
#Trump #DonaldTrump #Putin #America #USA #UnitedStates #NuclearWeapons #NuclearSubmarines #Lunatics #Russia #Threads #Movies #Movie #Film #Cinema
It’s still on BBC iPlayer if anyone in the White House area or Kremlin fancies watching it…
The #reclaimtech activity this month is #ChuckZuck ! Do you (or someone you know) still have an account on the Zuckerverse? #Instagram, #WhatsApp, #Threads and #Facebook -- this month, all together, we shut it down!!
Hitting delete is the easy part-- disentangling your life to #reclaimcontrol is much harder. So here is my experienced guide to getting off social media (hint: you need more than technical tips)
https://www.optoutproject.net/social-media-1/
Follow along with @TheBulletin
#FediPact 
