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Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse (wedistribute.org)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But no real way to link that IP to the profile data they can scrape from any Lemmy site, I assume?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.