@TildeGartenzaun I think it's important to be clear that Fediverse does even less to protect your data.
If you are posting content here under the impression that it's safer, then you are unfortunately putting that content at risk.
@volkris Yes, but "analysing your date and using it to manipulate you and selling it to advertisers" was a bit too long.
@TildeGartenzaun again the point is that Fediverse is just as open to that kind of thing if not more.
Fediverse has fewer protections than the alternatives, and people need to be aware of that if they are going to use the platform from an informed decision.
@TildeGartenzaun maybe, maybe not, but it concerns me that a lot of people on fediverse are actively mislead and told that their content is safer here.
A lot of people here are not just unaware of the insecurity but actively lead to believe that there is security when there isn't.
@volkris Publicly published content is never save.
But at least I didn't have to give any personal information here. You can even use a throw away email.
@TildeGartenzaun again, it's great if you know that content you put into this platform isn't safe, but the problem is that an awful lot of other people don't know that, as they've been told the opposite.
Even the original picture above plays into that impression.
Contrasting with being owned by whomever, fine. But contrasting with stealing data reasonably makes a person think that data here won't be stolen.
@volkris The picture is a meme. It's exaggerated for comedic value. It's not a god damn instruction manual.
@TildeGartenzaun never said it was
@volkris Are people aware of that on other platforms?