You're posting on public forum. If you don't want Facebook to see it then stop posting. Defederating isn't going to change that. It just stops the content flow from their instance into yours. Not the other way around. For them to get data other than your content and upvotes you need to install Threads app because that's only available to the admins of your instance and Facebook can't get it wether you federate with them or not.

People are demanding for defederation but almost everyone is confused about what it does.

[–] Flax_vert 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The thing is, if you wanted to interact with someone on Threads and it wasn't federated, you'd have to install the app and hand over your data to Meta to interact with them. If it was federated, you could set up your own Mastodon instance and keep all of the data that you don't want to share.

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Installing their app is not the only option. You can also just switch to an instance that federates with them.

[–] Flax_vert 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but it will still give them less of an incentive to join the fediverse in the first place. This kneejerk reaction of blocking them is madness. Instead we should be getting big figures to join the fediverse so that if meta ever chooses to leave the fediverse, they'd be removing their userbase from the content.

[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah I agree that there's possible downsides to it aswell. Ideally every user could individually block instances as they wish instead of it being forced upon us. I'd imagine this feature is eventually coming. Some apps allow it I believe