• lemmyvore
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    411 months ago

    If you think Meta will allow the Threads algorithm to show anything from the fediverse you are unbelievably naive. And that’s if content from the fediverse even makes a blip on a platform with 100x the size.

    Meta doesn’t federate with the goal of giving Threads users an out. They federate because it’s the most efficient way to scrape fediverse instances and build profiles on fediverse users.

    Meta has reached saturation with their existing services so they are now branching into any possible extra source of data they can. They’ll take anything, from fediverse federation to Whatsapp emails. All your data is welcome to them.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 months ago

      They federate because it’s the most efficient way to scrape fediverse instances and build profiles on fediverse users.

      That’s not true. Quiet scraping is much easier to implement than integrating AP into your platform.

    • @[email protected]
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      111 months ago

      They don’t need to show you anything in the algorithm.

      As for data, that’s complete non-sense. What data do you think they’re getting access to that they can’t already get? If the goal was to trove data they would have done it quietly and not announced it so that everyone could block them before they even had a chance.

      They’re federating because of the Digital Markets Act.