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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
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Yes, but it’s dishonest to claim “This is in stark contrast to other social networks which seem to collect lots of personal info.” as you did in the root message. A typical Mastodon server collects a lot of personal information from me (because it kind of has to, to work). Don’t compare a standalone app to a “social network”.
And it’s more dishonest to then show “a comparison of the privacy policies of various official social network apps.” - because that’s not what those policies are. They show the social network privacy details (because they’re one and the same). It’s not a fair comparison.
The point you appear to make is that the fediverse keeps no information about me at all. This is not true.
Is the fediverse better because it isn’t correlating my IP address with ad brokers to work out who is in my household and where I live? Yes.