Boycott US

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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.

Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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Bluesky collects way too much data! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is why I prefer Mastodon as it doesn’t collect anything.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Having an account registered to an email address and being able to post content is all that’s needed for these categories to be checked. Well, apart from the diagnostics.

The difference with Mastodon is that the third party server that you’re connecting to is handling this data.

If you compare it with an app like X, you’ll see that there is another category that shows which data is being used to track you, instead of just being processed for basic functionality.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They certainly don’t need the contact info

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Your login is your contact info.

And, to be clear, that's collected by your Masto instance as well. Looking at the Android app right now it reads "This app may share these data types with third parties: Personal info". Presumably your login data with an instance, I guess?

That doesn't mean BS isn't storing more data about you, but man, people seem to assume Fedi apps are private and they really, REALLY are not. That's fine, it's not the point of them to be private, but something I learned during the whole Threads federation wars is that people assume their posts are much safer from mining than they actually are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

If you post anything online it should be under the assumption that it will be public and it will be traced back to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Meanwhile Threads by Meta:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That’s hard to look at.