this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2023
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Privacy

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Is this a good idea for privacy?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Your instance knows

  • Your IP address
  • Your E-Mail (if provided
  • Your password (salted of course)
  • Your session type (browser, app, etc)
  • Your interactions (posts, comments, saved, upvotes, downvotes, etc
  • Your social graph (following and followers, etc)

Everyone in public knows

  • Your session type (optional)
  • Your interactions (posts (if set public), comments, saved (depending on service), upvotes, downvotes, boosts, etc)
  • Your social graph (may be optional depending on service)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is session type made available in the federation? I wasn't aware that was shared on the protocol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Im not sure, but on mastodon for example you will often see tusky, or web, etc at the bottom of post details. https://digitaldarkage.cc/@shortwavesurfer2009/110691099097120908

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can disable it, in the settings. Still a feature which shouldn't be there in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hmm good point. I guess it is optional though so on the client end you can probably avoid sending anything (or just spoof as "web" at worst).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I know mastodon has a checkbox to disable it from the server end.