Threads, Bluesky, Federation and Our Data
As I understand it, and please do correct me if I'm wrong, Threads is connected to the ActivityPub protocol. Nor can I reliably and firsthand speak to whether threads is two-way or just a "data hoover," sucking in whatever it can from public Activity-Pub feeds, but even two-way connections between Threads and the Fediverse is a problem, because Meta use reaction data from online human interactions to target advertising and political manipulation. In August, 2023, I downloaded the entirety of my Facebook data, deleted it completely from Facebook (not that I trust that deletion, I'm sure they have it squirrelled away somewhere) and shut down my Facebook account. It was a hard call to make. Some of the best people I've ever known, and Facebook was my only possible connection to them, are/were there. Have tried to maintain email contact with some, but that has dwindled. I have some limited activity on YouTube but, after a brief period on Mastodon, I stopped taking my...