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The same technical thing, yes. The key difference really is whether or not a notoriously exploitative corporation is behind.
Except that since federating is a technical action we can look at, and examine technically, we can all of course see that it gives Meta access to nothing that they couldn't have scraped publicly.
Sure, if that's your only concern — and disregarding that it's a minority who would likely have the time, diligence and knowhow to actually confirm that you're right — but Meta's interest in directly leaked or scraped data is probably secondary to embrace-extend-extinguish alternatives to their services. Discourse doesn't exactly have that motive.