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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My point is that not everything in the Fediverse is public. Unlike what Mastodon and Lemmy users keep claiming because that's all they know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

@Jupiter Rowland The public stream, if turned on, would only show the public posts. Not the private ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Both Hubzilla and (streams), in practice the only Fediverse server apps that have a "public stream" and users other than the dev, can do a lot to keep content private.

But tell that to the Mastodon users who only know Mastodon and the Lemmy users who only know Lemmy, both of whom "know" that nothing in the Fediverse is private because nothing on Lemmy and effectively nothing on Mastodon is private.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Does it even matter if they know? The private content is supposed to be invisible to them anyway. The fact that they don't know it exists would make it more invisible.

Also, some platforms, like Mastodon, have actually adopted some privacy. For example, they added "followers only" posts that only their followers can see. If they are aware of Mastodon's "followers only" posts, then they already understand the basic concept of limited distribution.