Why just blocking Meta's Threads won't be enough to protect your privacy once they join the fediverse - eviltoast
  • Christer Enfors@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    So? It’s public. Who cares?

    People who are frequently targeted by harassers care, such as trans people. People on Threads will be able to find trans people in the fediverse and harass them by creating accounts on the same instance as the trans person to get around the block.

    • phillaholic@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It’s the fundamental flaw in the fediverse. I don’t see any way to fix it. It’s sort of like wanting to leave the US and for your own country and then consider that they are no Police or governing bodies to prevent bad actors from hurting people. Well yea…