Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse
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Threads, Meta's new microblogging platform, is updating its terms to focus on data collection from "Third Party Users".
  • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m kinda torn here.

    On the one hand, this is Meta we’re talking about. Fuck’em.

    On the other, this is all public info on insecure social media. It can all be scraped by anyone who wants to anyway.

  • AdminWorker@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Can activity pub change it’s terms to say that all crawlers that use this must be gnu open sources and all information crawled must be open to the public on gnu open sources software (no crawling to a private enterprise)?

    My understanding is all the big tech companies are scared of what happened with router software (openwrt) and they don’t want to be forced to let competition be a foss community via gnu licensing.

    • Nerd02@lemmy.basedcount.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Isn’t ActivityPub just an application protocol? To my knowledge there’s no ActivityPub inc. licensing the usage of the protocol or anything like that. A web protocol is just a series of guidelines everyone has agreed on following, you can’t attach terms and conditions to it.