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Move to an instance that won't.
Burying your head in the sand doesn't change the fact that whatever LW does will affect all of Lemmy. They're too big.
This is a strange response for me because de-federating is an active step on behalf of its admin, usually after a vote amongst its users, at creating a virtual boundary between the two entities. How is that burying your head in the sand? And yeah, lemmy.world is big, but aside from the obvious loss of content/users, what other effect will that have on the mass of de-federated instances?
~~Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that since LW will federate with them, any content they host, will end up on meta.~~
~~For example, this discussion we're having right now is on !technology@lemmy.world. So it doesn't matter whether our own instances have defederated meta - our posts and comments here will bring them value. Directly, in the form of content. And indirectly, in the form of processable data for machine learning, shadow profiles, etc.~~
Your understanding is wrong. Instances don't forward stuff from other instances to other instances. Instances only send their own content directly to the instances they federate with.
Thanks!
So on a different instance that's not federated with Meta I can see LW content but not Metas?
Yes