I almost never look at the app store but I popped in today in the wake of the TikTok ban and was shocked to see this.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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Depends on what you mean.
If you set your profile to private, it's most likely private. It is open source so you can audit the code, if you're knowledgeable enough. Then you have to trust whoever hosts your instance that they haven't modified the code.
The difference between other mainstream social sites is that it's not secretly mining all your personal data. It only shares exactly what you give it. At least it's probably not, because there's not a significant amount of it.
But everything you make public is not just available publicly but also archived on thousands of servers. And you can electronically request it be deleted but there's no guarantee they'll honor that request.
Good point. My worry is just a federated instance scooping up all of the feed regardless of privacy, but I bet this is a question I can answer by ceasing my laziness and reading their site.
Yeah again, assuming everything is kosher on your instance, they can only scoop up what your instance, and you, make available.
Anything you make publicly available should be considered to be immortalized. Forever.
But with the advent of a hundred different websites like archive.org and now all these AI sites, you should assume that about the whole internet, I suppose.
I wish there was a truly private social media but it looks like Signal stories is about as close as we get.