Chris Trottier on Nostr: De-federating #Threads does ***NOT*** prevent #Meta from accessing your public ...
De-federating #Threads does ***NOT*** prevent #Meta from accessing your public #Fediverse feed.
This is demonstrably false. Almost all servers that de-federate Threads still broadcast the RSS feed of your posts. This is available to everyone, even servers that are de-federated from yours.
If you don’t believe me, test this out for yourself. Append “.rss” to the end of your profile URL ([exampleserver.com/@username.rss](http://exampleserver.com/@username.rss)), and see what happens.
Hell, if I wanted to build a search engine for the Fediverse and *not* use ActivityPub, I could use RSS instead and I could index *most* of the Fediverse – whether your opt into it or not.
Let’s stop spreading the myth that de-federation by itself prevents Threads from accessing your public feed.
[@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)
This is demonstrably false. Almost all servers that de-federate Threads still broadcast the RSS feed of your posts. This is available to everyone, even servers that are de-federated from yours.
If you don’t believe me, test this out for yourself. Append “.rss” to the end of your profile URL ([exampleserver.com/@username.rss](http://exampleserver.com/@username.rss)), and see what happens.
Hell, if I wanted to build a search engine for the Fediverse and *not* use ActivityPub, I could use RSS instead and I could index *most* of the Fediverse – whether your opt into it or not.
Let’s stop spreading the myth that de-federation by itself prevents Threads from accessing your public feed.
[@fediversenews](https://venera.social/profile/fediversenews)