@briankrebs I kind of like that mastodon doesn’t “crowdfund” all your contacts. It leaves room to make new ones. I find Mastodon is like meandering down a river and encountering strangers along the way that share their interests and who point you toward new pathways to explore. Enjoy the journey!

@briankrebs I didn't think of that. You're right.

@briankrebs This was the moment I quit using the twitter app. All of the notifications were just it asking me to share my entire contacts list.

@briankrebs I agree i registered my second account on Twitter without noticed they suspended the account without any reason. I'm really sure this is annoying..

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My first social network was the NLforum on CompuServe, in 1991. We did not betray anything. They knew everything already. But the nice thing was that they did not use any of that knowledge.

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@briankrebs Yes, here it's optional.

@briankrebs And it's also a fun thing when an app just plainly refuses to start when you don't allow the permissions it wants.

That's why I loved PrivacyGuard for CyanogenMod (also loved my Motorola Milestone 2), it gave a third option: give access to a fake resource: empty contact list, a dummy location, etc.

I miss that.

@briankrebs When I told IT Security at my previous company that LinkedIn was requesting access to my Windows email account, and we should probably not permit that they were "nah, they just want your contacts." (Which the company should not want them to have, let alone credentials to a bunch of email accounts!)

@briankrebs Diaspora* does not do that either, yet you get an invite link.

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This is the first social network that allowed me to:
- Keep my own data on my own server and yet, communicate with others.
- Find incredible smart people, all kind of people and have a nice very elevated conversation.

@briankrebs Or like TikTok, betraying people who betrayed their contacts by showing you which users have you in their contacts (I think this has been fixed, though). The Fediverse is so refreshing.

@briankrebs Betray all of the people in your address book. :vlpn_scream: (This is a joke)

@briankrebs it is refreshing. snap chat begs me for access once a month. Joke is I dont have any contacts on my iphone and it still pulls people that message me on google voice as suggestions

Tired: App demands access to all of your contacts upon account creation.

Wired: App demands near total access to your other social media apps, contacts, posts, timeline, likes, friends, settings, blah blah.

@briankrebs Use web browsers, my friend!

No permissions given to anything.

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I was on some social network before 2005 and they didn't ask that.

But they also was on invite only, not searching for business money

@briankrebs I don't recall #Bluesky asking me for any of that contact info.

@briankrebs Open source innit. If you feel that feature is missing I'm sure you're welcome to code it.