The results are in around the #Meta / #Threads poll I put out a week ago and over 8.2K people have voted, thank you all❤️
The recent App Store screenshots from the 'App Privacy' from Meta's new app Threads have concerned me and with the current status the question remains if it's even allowed within Europe
The chance that they will ever federate with us remains the question but with their current platform as-is we are gonna block them until many things improved
Keep in mind that the privacy settings from the Threads app you see on the screenshot only applies on THEIR platform
But I cannot be fully sure to what extend their data collection goes as far as search results for example
Until we have a better picture of how their new platform is gonna run in somewhat more details we can make a better decision
When / IF #Threads will release within Europe we will take another look and make a decision but until that happens we will keep the block
Since we are hosted in Europe I'm not sure it would be clever to federate with a platform that is not allowed in the EU
This is not about me trying to take away the choice for a user-level instance block but rather a more legal reason
Again, IF Meta/Threads where to federate with us their posts, users and media would end up on our servers(as a copy). And since we know they are not allowed within Europe yet I am not willing to take that risk and host their content! ⚠️
When the moment comes and they do release in Europe we will lift the block and let you decide for yourself!
This is about protecting the instance
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@stux Hate to break it to you, but that issue applies to all federation, not just meta. There are countless servers that exist exclusively in the USA..
That said I support whatever decision you make re: blocking meta... as long as your transparent to your users they can pick whatever server they want.. if they want to talk to their friends and family they will just move servers, no biggie.
That said I think the legal reason doesnt add up, its more ideological, but thats ok!
@freemo Haha yeah indeed thats why the blocks 
I will keep an open mind ofc, but i really really need at least the min EU req from them 
Well I dont think anyone will be shocked if Threads winds up completely abusing privacy rights.... so yea...
@freemo @stux Came here to say something similar: the risk is actually bigger the other way around.
With how federation works, Stux is legally the responsible processor *exporting* data under #gdpr and needs to make an assessment if that’s ok.
With regular instances data usage is known and can likely be considered safe and within legal limits. With threads (especially given Meta themselves concluded it’s illegal in EU for now) that’s not something I’d lightly assume.