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MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can someone ELI5 here. So Lemmy.world is a Reddit like site, Threads is a Twitter like site. What does it mean when they’re federated?
TunaLobster@lemmy.world 6 months ago
akilou@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
But what does that mean? How would I see content from one on the other?
TunaLobster@lemmy.world 6 months ago
You are commenting on a LemmyNet post from the shit just works instance. I am replying from a LemmyNet account on lemmy.world. It could also happen that someone from a Mastodon instance could reply to this comment. Everyone can have their account on a specific instance (even self-hosting their own instance) and still be able to see content from other websites. There is no singular website that hosts all data and there is no singular authority (ok maybe you could argue the developers of the software, but it’s also open source and other options do exist so it’s not a true single point of authority) for the entire network.
DarkThoughts@kbin.social 6 months ago
akilou@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
I’m on Mastodon also. But how do they connect?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
That’s means that I can see your content from lemmy.zip
Yoz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Your IP, comments, username , liked post, disliked post and other identifiers will be shared with facebook.
Korne127@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Defederating doesn’t stop that, it just stops that their IP gets shared with us.
misk@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
With FB and every other instance. Are you vetting who has controlling stake in every instance you federate with?
dan@upvote.au 6 months ago
You do realise that your account on here is public, right? Anyone can collect data like comments, and it’s likely already being used to train AI models just like Reddit data was.
The only way to avoid data being sent to other servers is by having a private account and never interacting with content from other servers. I don’t think it’s even possible to have a private Lemmy account.
Yoz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So by your logic, you just want to hand out everything to Facebook on a golden platter. Let them scrape the data if they want but handing out willingly is like smoking cigarette only to get cancer.
dan@upvote.au 6 months ago
The data is already handed out willingly. Anyone can write code that federates with a Lemmy instance using the ActivityPub protocol, subscribe, and receive a feed of all posts and comments. The instance you’re on federates with around 5850 servers: lemmy.world/instances. Do you really think the admins have verified every one of them to ensure they’re legit?