Hey peeps. By now you all heard that Zuck’s meta has started and in a defederated mode. This instance has already signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact and we plan to not help improve the value of Facebook, if and when they plan to open federation.
However I am thinking we can have a bit of fun beforehand.
You see, Threads is extremely sanitized in order to be “corporate friendly”. Naturally this makes their service as exciting as a bowl of plain porridge. However in order to keep their corporate partners happy, they are also extremely cautious about anything controversial and will likely defederate from anything too spicy.
So why not use this an an opportunity to make Threads defederate from us?
What would you say that we leave federation up, but use the opportunity to share with the larger threads populace some important information about filesharing? Sharing is caring after all and we have plenty of knowledge to give.
Naturally, if this doesn’t work, we will defed them ourselves soon after anyway, but I expect it will. What say you all?
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What the other poster said. That information is already publicly available and can be collected without even having another instance just via the public api.
So I can create an instance and automatically start scraping people’s info? Or is an instance not even necessary? I understand how web crawlers and spiders will index but do they have access to the granular account data? If so how do we mitigate this?
You only have limited access to use info. You can’t see emails or IPs etc. Content, votes etc you don’t need an instance, you can just scrape directly.
There’s no mitigation.