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No, users still see content from defederated instances
For example BeeHaw has defederated from lemmy.world however lemmy.world users are still perfectly able to see posts from BeeHaw communities, they just can't interact with them
The point Is if you're wanting to Defedrate from Threads from a privacy perspective you're achieving nothing
If you're defederating/blocking Threads because you don't want to see their content or want their users interacting with you/your instance then fair enough
Well, it might not be a 100% effective solution then but it does save users the trouble of accidentally interacting with content on Threads. If it doesn't show up in my feed, I don't click on it without noticing where it came from.
I thought you could block defederated domains from making public API calls, though maybe they is a step done outside of ActivityPub.
I think people need to stop thinking privacy is a thing with a public service like this. It's not. All we'd get is making Thread crappier if they had this ghost version of all Federverse accounts.
Yeah absolutely, I think people really need to understand that Meta won't be the last to try to integrate with the Fediverse, as it grows it's unfortunately unstoppable that ad companies (as well as more malicious actors) will start harvesting as much useful user data as they can
People need to be more careful with what they post as even small things like who has upvoted/downvoted a comment is viewable