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[-] Pika@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I'm all for federating with them. But give the user the ability to defederate their posts/comments based off their settings. I would rather my information not be supplied to any company owned by Facebook, that's just me.

[-] ruhroe@vlemmy.net 9 points 1 year ago

The information they could get is already public. That’s how Activity Pub works.

[-] Pika@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's completely fine, but just because a knob can be lockpick doesn't mean you leave it unlocked.

Granted I have very little experience with activity pub, but I would expect that it should be very possible to have something similar to how defederating Works where if you don't allow it to be sent to a specific Community it just won't communicate.

edit: Looking back at it though, it wouldn't stop them from just opening a secondary instance nobody knows about, having it set to private and then just running it as an info collector I don't think.

yep, your edit is correct - and is what the previous poster meant by public info

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