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You realize all the stuff you post is public, right?
Yeah, and I suppose how long you read a post is public too? I mean, meta can see that information, and you're not hiding it offline or anything, so they should just be able to sell it too why not. And your search history. That's... public too. Your personal contacts for your friends and family on your phone, thats wide open public information right. Also any health information you log in your phone. Public info.
Is everything human beings do public info? Should we make our houses out of glass while we're at it, and record every human beings entire life on audio and video so that mega corporations can sell any information gathered?
Is this just fear mongering roleplay at this point? They literally can't get any of that from your fedi clients. That's just straight up false. If you're in their client then no shit lol, but we're obviously not talking about that.
Thats what the person you were responding to was talking about yes.
How can they see that info unless you are using their app in the first place?
If you use a different app, all you’d be doing is fetching their posts and comments and all Meta can do is fetch your posts and comments. You aren’t fetching telemetry data.