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Fediverse privacy nightmare? (blog.bloonface.com)
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I think they are leaving out something quite important in this blog post - nobody is using their real names here.

It's very different from Meta or Google or whatever big tech company people have accounts on, where they know your real name and many more details, such as phone number and address.

I don't see the privacy danger in someone sweeping up what we are talking about here, since we are pseudo anonymous. Am I missing something?

Whats the value of random aliases discussing something and why is that a privacy issue?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Brain dead take. Sums up as "Wah! Information you publicize is public!" This guy completely misses the fact the the privacy nightmare of corporate social media is the apps that scrape every piece of traceable information off your phone to sell, and the cookies and browser tracking so they can follow you all over the web. AFAIK fediverse sites aren't doing this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

apps that scrape every piece of traceable information off your phone to sell

The word "scrape" is a little bit generous IMO. Threads in particular with its endless scrolling list of required permissions is literally handing your entire phone to Facebook/Meta - saved contacts, payment information, fitness tracker and health information... half of those permissions I didn't know even existed ๐Ÿ˜ณ