Some more thoughts on the challenge of #Meta #Threads integrating ActivityPub support while living up to their normal obligations.
1) Enforcing actor and behavior-based content moderation will be hard.
All content moderation is either against the actor, behavior, or content (ABC model). With Feder...
Some insights from Alex Stamos that I found quite interesting.
TL:DR;
He predicts the challenges will be as follows:
Content Moderation: Enforcing actor and behavior-based content moderation will be difficult in the federated environment. The lack of metadata available in Federation makes it harder to stop spammers, troll farms, and abusers.
Privacy Obligations: With Threads content being pulled down and cached by other servers, it becomes challenging to comply with right-to-data-deletion requirements, such as those imposed by GDPR. The Fediverse lacks mechanisms to enforce content deletion.
Competing with Other Platforms: Meta may face difficulties in competing and reaching feature-parity with platforms like TikTok and Twitter while being bound by the feature set of ActivityPub.
Very interesting points, i have a (noob) question about point n.2. Could the question about GDPR can be circumvented by having a anonymous profile ?
Could this be applied to other platforms?