If for whatever reason you never wish to interact with #Threads, you can personally block it for your account. This hides all posts and profiles from Threads, prevents anyone from Threads from following you, and stops your posts from being delivered to or fetched by Threads. Simply click the "Block domain threads.net" option on any Threads profile or post you see in Mastodon.
@Gargron That's not for "whatever reason" because threads can deliberately steal personal data and spread what they call "their services" even if you don't have any threads account. Threads.net is the worst social network in terms of personal data. Threads is a very dangerous threat. If META sneaks in Fediverse, that's simply because META fears it.
We're testing a couple new follow recommendation algorithms on mastodon.online, so if you have an account there, please check Explore → People and let me know if the quality of the results has improved for you.
@Gargron It would be a better idea to exclude threads.net (for a good start) and not to add an algorithm to reshape Fediverse as companies like Meta, Twitter/X, Amazon and Apple would want it to be for their own profit against its users. People feel better here without them.
Threads.net is a very big potential threat. Fediverse must not be reshaped and stolen as XMPP
@Gargron
Convenience is not always better... It can have unacceptable flaws for privacy. Mastodon is better because it is what it is and doesn't rely on algorithms. Many people want it to keep on not using them
@just_a_frog@Gargron
Convenience is not always better...
In the beginning it will be an innocent algorithm "just to implement that single" convenient feature" but let's admit it : "recommendation" that's exactly how GAFAM's toxic system works. I understand that people want convenience, a much more attractive network... but they tend to forget that they came here to escape a world (surveillance capitalism) that most people would want to exclude.
PSA: We've received questions about push notifications. First: push notifications for Signal NEVER contain sensitive unencrypted data & do not reveal the contents of any Signal messages or calls–not to Apple, not to Google, not to anyone but you & the people you're talking to. 1/