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   Fabio Manganiello (fabio@manganiello.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 02:07:06 JST Fabio Manganiello

   • Gareth Kitchen
   • happyborg

   @gruff @happyborg honestly I haven’t found much around. Everybody seems to hysterically yell “we all must defederate Threads, otherwise everybody’s privacy will be diluted!”, which means that few probably have a clearer picture of the settings already available and how cross-instance content forwarding works. I may work on putting together this information in a more articulate stand-alone post.

   Disclaimer: this information is based on my understanding both of the protocol and the available settings, which in turn are based on on skimming through the source code myself. I’m not sure if other loopholes are available (for example posts cached on other instances and indexed), so I’d love to get confirmation from someone who has contributed to the Fedi more than me.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 02:07:01 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Gareth Kitchen

     @fabio @gruff they don't

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     Fabio Manganiello (fabio@manganiello.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 02:07:02 JST Fabio Manganiello

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     • Evan Prodromou
     • Gareth Kitchen

     @gruff cc @evan - I’m not sure if tag notifications from the Fedi already work for Threads accounts.

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     Gareth Kitchen (gruff@stroud.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 02:07:03 JST Gareth Kitchen

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     @fabio Maybe somebody like @evanprodromou has a take on this? I'm certain that better education (simple to digest infographics) would go a long way quell the hysteria. The reality is that this is not just a convo specific to Threads, it's about interoperability more generally isn't it?
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Sunday, 31-Mar-2024 02:10:17 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Gareth Kitchen

     @gruff @fabio my take is that a lot people don't know that they can set their accounts private, or change their servers to allowlist federation. I think sharing that info is a big help.