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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.
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@FediTips I don't know if this is the case but I also don't see any reason to believe otherwise.
@anselmschueler
The reason to believe otherwise is to compare the entry for Mastodon and BlueSky.
According to their app store entries, Mastodon collects nothing, BlueSky collects something.
This is the point of my original post with its comparisons of screenshots from app stores.
@[email protected] As I understand app developers are given some latitude in how they fill in these boxes, so what I was considering was the possibility that the BlueSky developers interpreted the requirements for this information differently.
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Ahh okay... that's an interesting point. It would be good to have more info on that.