@mike@sauropods.win @mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online @clifff@shakedown.social @Gargron@mastodon.social Your straw man is that mastodon is not for private conversations. Nobody said the contrary (hence a straw man). The simple point that you are (intentionally?) confounding was clear in the toot you replied to: the *app* by Meta requires permissions for personal data collection from the user's phone. Doesn't matter what Meta's instance federates with: you give Meta your (public) communications AND your private identifying info. Hope this clarified the issue.