The fediverse is a privacy nightmare
blog.bloonface.com
ActivityPub, the protocol that powers the fediverse (including Mastodon – same caveats as the first two times, will be used interchangeably, deal with it) is not private. It is not even semi-…

TLDR: While Fediverse won’t directly serve you ads, anonymous bad actors other than Meta can save, redistribute, and even dox you for any information you post here. Anything you post here can/will remain forever on some malicious instance that doesn’t honor deletion requests. So be careful!

    • pragmakist
      1•1 year ago

      Unfortunately there are people who will trust you if you’re well meaning.
      Whether or not you have any inkling of how to do what they trust you to do.
      Or any intention…

    • @whiskersOP
      0•1 year ago

      There are laws that you can enforce by suing them. It’s probably not going to be the case here

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        Anything you post here can/will remain forever on some malicious instance that doesn’t honor deletion requests.

        That is true of literally any social media; Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, there is nothing preventing someone from screenshotting a post, or a web crawler from archiving it, and then keeping that information after it is deleted from the original source.