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I think my instance isn't federated but I am under the understanding that the federation can still scrape data through other federated instances that mine is connected with. Something along the lines of 'their data doesn't come in but your data is still sent out'.
That's not true. If your instance is defederated from Threads, your content will never be sent to Threads. Other instances will not forward content for you to Threads.
Thank you, that's good to know. Would you have a source that details these kinds of technical details so I can do a little more learning?
A quick search leads me to https://fedi.tips/ which has a lot of information. It mostly focuses on Mastodon but it generally applies to Lemmy and any other Fediverse app as well.
You probably won't find any source specifically saying that "content is not forwarded from remote servers to other remote servers" because that's just not how it works. The documentation will probably focus on what it actually does rather than all of the infinite things that it doesn't do.
Awesome, thank you!