Hello everyone. I am still learning about the fediverse.
I wanted to create a Mastadon account, and I see many different options for servers. I couldn’t necessarily search which servers value privacy like this community does, so I am hoping you can inform me what servers DO offer that mindset.
And finally, do you just trust that they follow this, or is there a way to verify?
It seems like, from my understanding, my information will be stored by someone else, somewhere, in hopes it’s protected.
Your information will be stored on the server you choose.
It really doesn’t matter which one you choose, just choose one. It doesn’t matter which one.
The difference is Mastodon will not store anymore information than you explicitly give it. It’s not going to mine your location data, it’s not going to ask for your contacts to add to a database and profile people. It’s not going to track your activity across the web and use your activity to serve you ads. There are no ads, so there is no incentive.
Even if your Mastodon server host WANTED to track all of your information like Meta or other centralized services do, they couldn’t afford to.