Have Facebook not heard of the Internet? Anyone can right click save as.

They have, old politicians haven’t

Except it’s not deferderated by everyone.

Edit: It’s actually opt-in.

… in certain areas:

Yeah, because your instance and almost all instances have decided to straight-up defederate

No, it didn’t defederate from Threads.

cuz Meta will access the federated info

Meta will access Threads accounts via federation? Um, sure… I mean it’s on their platform already…

I just edited my comment to add a link to the guide for opting in.

“Be outside Europe” is hardly a guide to opt in. 🙄 I’m in Europe and my Threads profile just isn’t available on ActivityPub. Period.

If Brazilian fediverse is anything like English fediverse, its community was probably tied up in discussions who to deferderate from next and vegan cat food instead of promoting Mastodon.

Threads uses opt-out ActivityPub.

That’s not true. I can neither opt my test account in nor out of ActivityPub. It’s simply not available to Mastodon.

Do regular Mastodon instances and clients play nicely with Threads?

You can’t connect to Threads using a Mastodon client but you can follow select Threads accounts from the Mastodon instance your client is connected to. Threads is still in what is basically a public beta. That’s why there are currently no ads there either (but they were announced recently).

Given how long it took to fix the federation issues back in december (0.19 update), I’d be hesitant about updating, too.

But you’re on a 0.19.5 instance. Do you experience issues? There’s some incompatibility with Mastodon, apparently, but given that 0.19.5 addresses serious privacy issues and has been out for a while without big problems, the privacy fixes are more important than keeping 100% Mastodon compatibility. Surely 0.19.6 will be out soon enough to address them.

is shared with a few other active services.

Why would you do that, given that Lemmy is 0.x software?

Why is Magic Earth free? What is the business model?

Magic Earth is free for all our end-users but we also have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners. For instance Selectric.de (a supplier for navigation solutions for ambulances and fire trucks), Smarter AI (developing ADAS systems) or Absolute Cycling (using the platform on bicycles). For more info on the SDK, you can check magiclane.com.

Do you share data with third parties?

We send position data to our traffic provider to generate real-time traffic information. The data is anonymized on the phone, using a changing key (so it’s not linked to you), and it is deleted after 5 minutes.

Will Magic Earth be Open Source?

No; since it is also used commercially (we have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners), we cannot make the code public.

https://www.magicearth.com/faq-en/

https://www.magicearth.com/ has traffic.