@carnage4life Wow, no privacy policy, and nothing in the FAQ about why we should trust them with this info? That's kind of alarming, even if the tool promises to be useful.
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@carnage4life Wow, no privacy policy, and nothing in the FAQ about why we should trust them with this info? That's kind of alarming, even if the tool promises to be useful. 3 comments
@scott @carnage4life the info is already public. You may notice that you don't have to authenticate the app to your instance. |
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You're not really trusting them with any info that isn't hanging out in public already:
"This app uses public APIs to fetch potential people you can follow on Mastodon. In fact, it only does inauthenticated network requests to various Mastodon instances."
I'd imagine there are probably lots of people out there trying to scrape various instances and build up giant social graphs of Mastodon users, this one just lets you see your own.