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   Eric Kolb (erickolb@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 23:38:42 JST Eric Kolb

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs What I find disingenuous is suggesting that Mastodon has access to Health and Fitness, Purchases, Sensitive Info, Search History, Browsing History, or Financial Info at the instance without the user making an explicit decision to toot about those things. It is not a reasonable comparison.

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     stonedonkey🕹️🎮👾 (stonedonkey@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 22:03:11 JST stonedonkey🕹️🎮👾

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs you're conveniently ignoring that Meta also runs servers.. so not only does it's app cull unnecessary amounts of data it also has a backend doing way more than mastodon instances.

     Meta builds profiles for people not even on their platform all over the web via share buttons, cookies, mobile apps, and I'm sure a myriad of others beyond.

     All of that said can you explain to me when Meta has ever been a good actor? Look I get it you want to use threads just stop trying to justify it.

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     Conlan Spangler (conlan@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 22:52:03 JST Conlan Spangler

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I agree the comparisons are hasty, but unless I’m missing something (I’m not a lawyer), Mastodon instances have far less access to that data compared to a native app, right?

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     slims (slims@famichiki.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jul-2023 23:06:12 JST slims

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs hey we kinda have similar header backgrounds, your’s is much cooler tho

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     Karl Baron (kalleboo@bitbang.social)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jul-2023 21:56:08 JST Karl Baron

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     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @erickolb @thomasfuchs It’s not as if the Threads app actually has access to those things either though. Like, iOS doesn’t just hand these things out to apps.