JelloBrains

Now, I am on the can we ban Threads train, I wasn’t at first because they hadn’t gotten involved in actually joining the rest of us, now they are and they’ve admitted they want all our information too, I just don’t want any part of that.

Things collected from fediverse participants that interact with Meta users…

- Username
- Profile Picture
- IP Address
- Name of Third Party Service
- Posts from profile
- Post interactions (Follow, Like, Reshare, Mentions)

They’ve never met a piece of data they didn’t want to mine, have they?

Mastodon also doesn’t feed you content from my understanding, you have to curate your feed yourself, and a lot of people don’t mind the algorithm of places like TwitterX and Facebook feeding them random stuff.

Credit score · Optional
App functionality, Fraud prevention, security, and compliance, Account management

What function could Meta possibly need for this? Why would Instagram/Threads (Same policy it looks like) need your Credit Score? WTF?

I’d only touch this if the team behind Instander made an app for Threads and I’d still use fake info.

What is the bottom line here? Is Youtube big enough to be allowed to publish full albums of Pink Floyd? Or does Youtube pay a dime to Universal so they are allowed to publish the audio content?

The short answer to both is likely, yes.

Google has a lot of money and can prolong court cases, you’ll notice most copyright bullies tend to go after the small fish so they can get a precedent before using it against the bigger fish. What protects them the most is that they have installed their copyright system, Content ID, which allows Universal to upload hashes for their content and it will then hunt for any video with that in it, at which point the automated system is designed to block the content or leave it up if that’s the publishers wants or monetize the content and send the money to the publisher.

My question is: If Youtube can go away Scot’s free with this, why can’t the fediverse? If we start to host massive video/audio content, what will happen to the fediverse?

The owner of those instances will likely be sued, if their server host doesn’t kick them to the curb first, probably both.

Lines from Command & Conquer the game of course.

Here I am wishing they had chosen VBulletin or Invision, lol. I think it’s just a case of what I’m more familiar with in terms of forums though.

I get their decision, forum software is stable, has plugins and tools to help with moderation, has been around a long time and they don’t have to worry about things like LemmyNSFW or other instances they don’t want the hassle of because they control all the content that shows up in a forum space.

I’m just glad it’s not a fucking Discord thing.

Call Bowser! He’ll never stand for this.

What’s really odd about this is that just yesterday they were banning NewYuzuPiracy and then they turned around and force a piracy sub-open. Nintendo might feel this is a slap at them because they said they’d help us and then opened the largest piracy sub back up.