Post by @giuseppe_aceto@scholar.social

2023-07-04 18:47 UTC

@mike@sauropods.win @mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online @clifff@shakedown.social @Gargron@mastodon.social straw man argument. what was discussed here it's not about the privacy of conversations, but the personal data hoarding **in addition to---and linked to---public conversations** done by Meta's Threads app. Required data access permissions include health and fitness, financial info, contact info, browsing history, location, contacts, and search history. As opposed to mastodon apps (that are also opensource), collecting **none**. 1/2

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@giuseppe_aceto@scholar.social 2023-07-04 18:53

@mike@sauropods.win @mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online @clifff@shakedown.social @Gargron@mastodon.social also consider that in the Fediverse there is no Real Name Policy (pseudonymity is actually a huge healthy feature here). Thus allowing Meta to link identity, personal information, and public (but possibly pseudonymous) communications is a huge loss of function for the user of Threads. I hope that the user is well aware of this and gets something valuable in return (I fail to imagine what). 2/2

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@mike@sauropods.win 2023-07-04 18:57

@giuseppe_aceto@scholar.social @mahmoudajawad@mastodon.online @clifff@shakedown.social @Gargron@mastodon.social You seem here to be describing the things that Facebook ask users of ITS instance to sign up to allowing, but they can't impose those conditions on people using other instances. But anyway, point was different and simpler: Mastodon simply isn't a private messaging service, and was never intended to be.

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