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Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads
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this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2023
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If meta wants to data farm lemmy, what's to stop them from hosting a 1 user instance, being federated with lemmy, and....? Profit?
I'm not worried about information going that way, it's an open source deal, information is already going that way.
As for getting more content from another instance? I'm not against it, as long as it's regulated, and at risk of defederation if it gets out of hand
So my understanding is that the way Federation works in the activity pub standard is that information is not cached on a server unless it interacts with another piece of content. It's basically a web of users, and one user cannot reach far on that web. That would mean the easiest way to collect mass amounts of data is to sicc their users over here by the millions.
Although if my understanding is incorrect, I would be happy for someone to educate me.
No, they don't even need an instance, all of the data is public and freely accessible.