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I think people should know those are just mutes
its like that on mastodon too, user domain blocks won't actually protect you from harassment or your data being vacuumed
Still, if people don't interact with Threads content, that effectively keeps them separate.
Also, come to think of it, what's keeping companies from "vacuuming" everyone's data without actually having a public instance that has users interacting with posts on other instances? Example: Instance A exists. What's stopping a company that runs Instance B, which doesn't have any active users on it, from taking all the available data from Instance A? Genuine question, by the way. I haven't exactly kept up with the technical workings of Lemmy very well.
I have the same question. Lemmy and Mastodon are both public and as of yet, no one was able to tell me what "privacy" actually looks like for data in that context. Other than the fact that Meta will destroy it. It’s public, anyone can access it already.
that is not true, at least in mastodon's case. Mastodon has unlisted, followers only and direct messages those are visible for the instance admins if your account federates to them. That is concerning. I don't need Zuck to suck up my private posts
While that’s true, I’m not sure how many people are using Mastodon that way and if that’s actually the main concern. In the end it still is meant to be a public platform. Not on the same level of "private messages and photos" where most people would probably be very concerned.
Seems like there's already accounts that repost content in an interactable way.