What (if anything) are you doing about Meta and Threads?You may have heard about this:
Threads Supplemental Privacy PolicyExcerpt relevant to the Fediverse:
Information From Third Party Services and Users: We collect information about the Third Party Services and Third Party Users who interact with Threads. If you interact with Threads through a Third Party Service (such as by following Threads users, interacting with Threads content, or by allowing Threads users to follow you or interact with your content), we collect information about your third-party account and profile (such as your username, profile picture, IP address, and the name of the Third Party Service on which you are registered), your content (such as when you allow Threads users to follow, like, reshare, or have mentions in your posts), and your interactions (such as when you follow, like, reshare, or have mentions in Threads posts).
So this is pretty much a description of how the Fediverse already opeates, but it's different when the instance operator is Meta, because they're Meta.
One issue that came up in discussion: Whose IP address are they collecting? Meta has already created at least two versions of this privacy policy, with a significant difference. My quote above is from what I see on their site right now. Other people have screen-captured a different version:
...(such as your username, profile picture, and the IP address and name of the Third Party Service on which you are registered)...
So are they capturing the IP of your instance, or the IP of the user? Maybe both. As
one person pointed out:
...an ActivityPub implementation is not required to store or proxy images, it could just use the original link.
In that case, Threads (and probably most ActivityPub servers) will store the IP requesting the image.
So if your instance doesn't cache images, Threads (and any other Fediverse server) can get your own IP address in addition to the instance's IP.
Anyway... I'm still pondering how much concern I should have about all this. What are your thoughts?
Oh, also:
Mike has issued an update with an extra admin setting relevant to blocking Meta/Threads.