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how to block meta from mastodon
(lemmy.world)
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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.
The information they could get is already public. That’s how Activity Pub works.
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