• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    The very nature of Federation means that all data needs to be openly shared between platforms, so even if there’s some info you don’t see on your client of choice, assume that every single interaction you have with the platform is public.

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      While that is very much true, but I find it debatable if you (as in the dev) want the user facing UI to show it.

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        But even if platforms agree to not make the data visible, anyone can spin up their own instance and browse through the backend data that is being sent. It’s the ActivityPub protocol itself, not the individual platforms that use it.