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>That means my server has to know your account exists. That doesn't mean your server has to share my data without checking my prefs. If the community is privac
by fsckboy 3y ago
>That means my server has to know your account exists.
That doesn't mean your server has to share my data without checking my prefs. If the community is privacy conscious, and it works this way, they're idiots. Taking the attitude "well, a bad actor could share your data anyway, so we'll just have everybody share it anyway" is not privacy conscious at all.
- kissgyorgy 3y agoNot sure what you mean by privacy when everything is literally public on the Fediverse. Users should be aware of that fact.
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- mariusor 3y agoThat is wrong, not everything is public on the Fediverse. Usually the content which is published with the Public namespace as a recipient is public, the rest of the activities are only disseminated to just the recipient's and author's servers. There might be bad actors, or badly implemented software which don't do that, but the Fediverse is composed of more than just Mastodon.
- superb_dev 3y agoIn this case the other server is just anyone with an http client. The fediverse is completely open you can crawl the whole thing yourself