I think it’s pretty safe to say that the majority of us are here to avoid another corporate takeover of our preferred platforms. It would seem to me to be a tad irresponsible to allow Facebook into our space with open arms, allowing them to hoover up our data. I would love to keep using Lemmy.world, but will happily change instances if need be, and I feel many share that sentiment.
What public info could they gather? My IP?
Not even that.
IP address isn’t part of your public profile, so it’s not something they could ever access unless you make an account on there directly.
Why is your account marked as a bot?
Oh, no… I was trying to block bot posts, and may have accidentally checked the box.
You’re not fooling anyone.
I’m copying pasta from my previous reply on other post
Once they can interact with your account, they can pull your data into their server and analyzing it to deliver ads campaign.
Just look at this
They can connect the point of interest based on their users interactions with other users on other instances. It doesn’t matter even if you don’t use their apps, they just need to connect the points.
Whenever an account from Threads upvote/ downvote or reply to your comments/posts or vice versa, Meta will analyze that and they can sell ads based on your political leanings, gender, geo-location, hobbies, marital status etc.
That’s the options from what I saw on fb ads dashboard years ago. If you’re from US, that options are broader and more detailed.
I am not getting it. If i am not using their threads client and signed in to a de federating instance, they would not get my IP address right?