For example, you point your browser at a.example. You are not logged in.

You navigate to a list of a local user's followers at a.example/user1/followers .

If you click on a profile in that list, it loads a.example/remote/user2@b.example , a profile page for a remote user.

If you click on an image posted by that remote user, it loads a.example/remote/b.example/image/33 , showing the remote image and all comments on it.

If this is not an interesting question to you, feel free to skip it!

Thanks to everyone who replied! I am a "yes, but...".

Yes, but you should clearly identify it as remote content or a remote profile.

People on here freak out sometimes when they see remote profiles or remote content on a Fediverse-enabled server. They say it has "shadow profiles" or "scraped content."

Clearly identifying that it comes from the Fediverse can help with this a lot.

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