2y ago

Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse

wedistribute.org Threads' New Terms & Conditions Affects the Fediverse

Threads, Meta's new microblogging platform, is updating its terms to focus on data collection from "Third Party Users".

This shouldn't come as a huge surprise. Meta is moving forward with their plans for Theads and the Fediverse, and their adjusted terms reflect a new impending reality for Fediverse users.

You're viewing a single thread.

164 comments

Do they get my IP if I reply to somebody or a post on Threads?
I was under the impression that I submit to my instance and then that passes the message along.
I had a quick look at the posts and comments bits of the schema and it doesn't appear to list an IP address field, unless I'm blind. Which is always possible.
- Normally not, but depending on how your Fediverse instance handles images they might get it that way. For example on Lemmy (since there is only limited image caching) they would probably get your IP, because your browser would load images from the threadsnet server.
  
  But no real way to link that IP to the profile data they can scrape from any Lemmy site, I assume?
  
  Not directly no, but Meta has perfected the art of creating indirect profiles, so I would assume they can figure it out if they want. For example correlating the IP from image downloads to comments from profiles should relatively quickly tell them which Lemmy profile belongs to which IP.
  
  Yeah, this. If you comment on a few different image posts, they just have to look for the IP that is in all of those pools. It's not that hard and this is basically metas bread and butter.

164 comments