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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, i think i saw several posts about this topic popping up in the last few days. And posts questioning things like this one. I'm not sure. I think this is fearmongering. Other services know even more about you and they even harvest and analyze this kind of data actively... I bet your Facebook-friends also know who you are. So what's the point? True. We need GDPR compliance and to save as little data as possible. But if you want something anonymous: Install Tor or anything suited for that task. Don't write blog posts and spread FUD about this platform. (Or do it, but then don't be a hypocrite and also write about what reddit/google/twitter/amazon do with your ip and browser fingerprint)