I won't be actually LAUNCHING this tool until I've found out how you all would feel about it being opt-out vs opt-in. I will provide a longer blog post for you all to read with details, but in short:

It would be really helpful for general interop on the fedi if this were opt-out. But if people are generally freaked out by having technical details about software data formats being opt-out... I'll make it opt-in.

Quick explanation of the data scrubbing in the attached images

@darius Hm. Am I reading it right you would be logging that person x made a post with URL y on date z?
that might interfere with some people's want to not have their posts seen off fedi; that info could be used against someone even if they delete it later. "why're you posting while on the clock" fer a basic example.
the "in reply to" field as well might expose the shape of who you talk to in a concerning way

edit: it's clear that I don't get it but will Try again after coffee

@t54r4n1 no, I am logging that "some person somewhere but I don't who or where because I threw away that data, made a post with a "URL" field that contains some kind of URL in it but I don't know what because I threw away that data"

I'm not even logging the time something was posted! Just "there is a time field in this and it contains a time but I don't know what time"