They're not almost the same thing at all, and your whole position is weird given that the context is social media which is fundamentally content people want to publish publicly.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

My point is not about the content. My point is about the metadata which I clearly mentioned in one of my replies. Even though Mastodon doesn't collect much unnecessary metadata afaik there is still some required stuff. At this point I suspect you in causing a fight. Your constant downvotes are a proof of it.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What metadata is collected by third parties is completely tangential to the topic of the submission. However, as I've repeatedly tried to explain to you, there is no practical difference between running on bare metal which nobody does nowadays, or running a VPS. At this point it's quite clear that you're just trolling, so I'm going to stop here. Bye.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml -1 points 6 months ago

We're either having drastically different definitions of metadata here or you're just trying to fight (that is more likely). The metadata I meant is collected by the first party (the server) and includes but is not limited to IP, interaction timestamps (the most important thing), file type, user agent (approximate browser name). Also since the data on the server isn't required to be encrypted, all account information (that can contain emails and 2FA keys) is unsafe too. At this point my suspicion of you not keeping the discussion civil is too high to continue it so I'm glad you chose to stop it yourself. I hope I could explain my point clearly and prove my innocence in this situation.