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The official Mastodon app (and most other Fediverse apps) do not collect any data about you.
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The official Mastodon app (and most other Fediverse apps) do not collect any data about you.
When you sign up on a Fediverse server, it asks for the minimum amount of information (an email address and a password) and none of this info goes to the app or app makers.
This is in stark contrast to other social networks which seem to collect lots of personal info. See the attached image for a comparison of the privacy policies of various official social network apps.
#Privacy #FediTips #Fediverse
@FediTips
Those who comment that Bluesky apprears to collect little data... It's likely we should read this a "Bluesky appears to collect little data **YET**."
Facebook started out sort of OK, and incrementally corroded user privacy to become an egregious surviellance-capitalism ad firm with an afterthought side hustle in social media.
Bluesky has raised $21 million (not a lot) from two funding rounds. Those investors expect an above market rate of return for their investment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky#Company_history
It's always important with any for profit service to ask - "How do/are they - going to make money?"
Bluesky wants to do this by selling services. We'll see if that works.
From the Bluesky blog:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/7-05-2023-business-plan
@egalitaire
Yup, totally agree.
BlueSky have set themselves up to enshittify by being a for-profit backed by VC money. They'll tempt people in and then gradually ramp up the problematic behaviour as the drive for profit increases.
That's why I'm steering clear of BlueSky, they seem to want to turn themselves into another Meta.