From leaked #Facebook internal documents:

- It has no idea how much data it ultimately collects on its users
- Cannot control where all that data goes internally
- Ultimately does not know what happens with it

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-what-it-does-with-your-data-or-where-it-goes

--- Tips to Mastodon/fediverse newbies ---

Hi, welcome! First thing you should know is, fedi is not exactly equal to Twitter - thankfully! So keep an open mind and allow yourself some time to adapt.

Don't just join the biggest instances (i.e., mastodon.social); their size creates *many* problems. But don't stress too much over picking a instance, you can easily migrate to another later. And you can follow people from any instance - it's more like e-mail or RSS than twitter in this regard.
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So many people saying they're switching from Firefox. Won't this only make the problem worse?

If you're switching to Brave or qutebrowser or UnGoogled Chromium or something, you're only strengthening Google's monopoly. If you're switching to a Webkit-based browser like Epiphany, you're shifting the monopoly towards Safari, whose parent company doesn't consider the Web a priority.

That Mozilla has bad management doesn't change the fact that Firefox is the most viable option for the open web.