Why are fediverse admins blocking out threads?

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 53 points – 1 years ago

I get meta evil, but aren’t we just blocking out any users from accessing the wider fediverse?

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I was talking about that on Mastodon but what prevent them to scrap on the fediverse when every thing is basically public (except private profile, etc). They could already be scraping data without even being in the fediverse.

The difference is that by defederating the only connection they can make is really just a facade. Users could see our posts but not reply or boost or favorite them. It would be like living with ghosts who cant see or interact with you. Makes for a crap experience.

And it also means that Meta can start sending you DMs or tagging mastodon users to push their ads or agenda. Yeah they can see your data but they can't interact with you.

It's blatantly illegal and Facebook/Meta has probably had enough of EU fines already.

Also, see this article from 2 days ago

Tl;dr:

The case centred on a challenge by Meta after the German cartel office in 2019 ordered the social media giant to stop collecting users' data without their consent, calling the practice an abuse of market power.