- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@kbin.social
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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If you have concerns that your posts will be public on a public message board, you’re kind of fucking stupid. It’s like being concerned that you will be visible if you leave your house to go to the store.
Bloonface.com has been posting anti-fediverse propaganda for a while now. It’s time to stop listening to what they have to say.
This is sadly a text written with much confidence about something they understand very little about. Especially the part about the GDPR is IANAL completely wrong.
Yes, DMs over AP are not secure. That’s why there is the big banner above it in nearly every AP implementation. The rest is pretty much FUD.
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.
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.
Well, i think i saw several posts about this topic popping up in the last few days. And posts questioning things like this one. I’m not sure. I think this is fearmongering. Other services know even more about you and they even harvest and analyze this kind of data actively… I bet your Facebook-friends also know who you are. So what’s the point? True. We need GDPR compliance and to save as little data as possible. But if you want something anonymous: Install Tor or anything suited for that task. Don’t write blog posts and spread FUD about this platform. (Or do it, but then don’t be a hypocrite and also write about what reddit/google/twitter/amazon do with your ip and browser fingerprint)
If a 3rd party entering the fediverse is a nightmare then we probably built it incorrectly.
pseudoymous, even
The person who wrote this blog has no brain wrinkles.
I mean, pseudonymous ≠ unlinkable. In fact, it’s relatively trivial to link writing styles, even if you did go to a consistent and reliable effort, over a period of years, to not accidentally post anything identifiable …
Sharing the same thing multiple places, contemporaneously. Mentioning the same event. Offering similar, complex opinions, with only slightly different wording.
It’s not necessarily a huge concern for the average Netizen; but then again, none of the mentioned things are? Privacy discussions are rarely conducted for the “average person,” they’re arranged around the needs and threat-models of marginalized and targeted folks. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Anyway. I’ve no huge horse in this race; I’ve the privilege of using, and enjoying, Mastodon under my real, legal name; but I also don’t think the writer’s points are “FUD,” as another commenter put it.