It's great that Mastodon's Privacy Policy is so much better than the others. But we're letting the most important point get buried in the noise. There's no real difference between collecting contact info, or device identifiers, or location. Once the app has *anything* that connects to our real identity, that data can be linked to everything else ever collected, and we become the product, and not the users.

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https://www.wired.com/story/meta-twitter-threads-bluesky-spill-hive-mastodon-privacy-comparison/