@beforewisdom here on kbin all mastodon posts are pulled in for us to see. we do content organization a bit different (putting things into threads, for example). This post you just made was automatically sorted into our @fediverse magazine and is listed as a "microblog post". The only way to prevent this would be to defederate with kbin (blocking kbin). Otherwise we can see your posts like everyone else on the fediverse can.
@beforewisdom nope. It's on the instance level. The website you're on may allow you to block or hide posts from kbin but I've never used veganism.social so idk if there's an option for that on there.
I have to wonder what the issue is though? Did you have a bad experience? By default all your posts go out to the whole fediverse, kbin included. That's kinda the whole point of federation.
@beforewisdom I think you've fundamentally misunderstood the idea of mastodon. It's a site focused on federated microblogging. Federation means that the content is shared with other federated sites. For example, mastodon.social, kbin, and veganism.social can all see this thread, because they are all federated on the same activitypub network. This is an inherent feature of mastodon and kbin. It's literally their core functionality. If you don't like that, you should find a site that doesn't do federation, or one that clearly lists it's federated sites that you feel comfortable with.
@beforewisdom yeah I think its just an advertising problem. Mastodon often gets pitched as "an alternative Twitter" without clarifying the federation stuff. On kbin we can disable looking at other site's content but not disable ours from being sent out. On the site/instance level admins can defederate and block other sites. But if you don't want federation at all, then it sounds like you aren't really into the who concept of mastodon and the fediverse in the first place.
@beforewisdom It's not getting copied, it's just your original post being visible on multiple Fediverse instances. That's how federation works. It's how I can see and reply to your post even though we are on different instances. If there was a visual indicator, it would trigger for every post. I think what you're asking for is a checkbox for whether or not you want your post to be federated.
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