Maybe this would help? It's by NintendoLife's PlayStation sister site Push Square:
https://www.pushsquare.com/guides/ps-app-how-to-send-ps5-screenshots-to-your-phone
The image is just screenshots of the Apple app store, I don't have any copyright over them so you don't need my permission. All I did was put them together and label each screenshot.
(But thank you for asking first! 🙏 )
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p.s. As for IP addresses, it's impossible to use anything online without giving some form of IP address. That's how the internet knows where to send stuff. It would be like trying to order something to be delivered without giving any kind of delivery address.
That doesn't mean you have to give your own IP address, the Tor network and VPNs let people hide it.
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That's the whole point though: separating the app and the server is a really good thing.
When the app and the servers are run by different people using open standards, it gives end users the ability to combine a non-surveillance app with a server run by people they trust, or even set up their own server.
Services which spy on you through the app anyway and/or force the user to use a particular server, are taking away this power from the user.
Ahh okay... that's an interesting point. It would be good to have more info on that.
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.
It is worrying that BlueSky is already collecting data they don't need.
"(which Mastodon would then "collect", too)"
No, they wouldn't. The makers of Mastodon's software and the owners of Mastodon servers are totally separate things.
Most people are on third party Mastodon servers which have no connection to the makers of Mastodon's software or the official apps.
This is one of the points of decentralisation, to avoid having any kind of central control point.
The official Mastodon app is open source, outsiders with the necessary programming knowledge can see all of its workings at any time:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-android
If it was spying on people, it would be very easy for outsiders to spot it.
The same goes for most third party Mastodon apps as they are mostly open source too.
I think it's because they're not seeing this happening directly.
If someone came up to them in the street and started following them around 24/7, filming them, recording their location, demanding their financial and medical details, stealing their browsing history, asking if they are pregnant etc they would feel differently.
Because this surveillance happens within their phone, at some level people can pretend it isn't happening.
Good grief... 😬
That is just dystopian. That kind of info could get people arrested (or worse) in countries with repressive regimes. 😞
None that I'm aware of, but there are so many apps available that it's difficult to know about all of them.
Main thing is to check an app's app store privacy section before you install an app (which is where the info in this post came from).
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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I'm not a web dev so difficult to comment, but for what it's worth it plays when minimised on my laptop.
Maybe @[email protected] could help? (They're the lead dev of OwnCast 🙂 )