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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] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is 100% FUD. The content of your profile, and the posts you send out to the world are not supposed to be private. What's supposed to be private is:

  • Your IP address
  • Your location
  • Your email address
  • your contacts
  • your browsing data
  • your health data
  • your purchase history

Etc. etc. These are the privacy issues you should be concerned with.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There are two options when you communicate in a wide channel way that the fediverse implements. A single-owner gate keeps for everyone, aka Facebook, or it's all public. The former means your posts are owned by tht entity and they control your data. In the later your data is held by no one. Then at least, you are not an exploitable commodity. This at least means the platform is protected from a class of abuse driven by ownership.