Good day #Fediverse. Can anyone help with evidenced information for data gathering practices in #Mastodon? I need something I can use in an academic paper to justify that Mastodon does not collect personal data, track interactions or monitor platform instance users in any way for commercial or any other purposes. I hope this is true and that I can justify it. I know that users & posts are tracked/counted bc of @fediverse stats sharing but thats anon data
@DrPen @fediverse one thing to look at are the project's dependencies (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/Gemfile and https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/blob/main/package.json). There are no obvious tracking libraries installed per default.
You could also open devtools in your browser and look at the actual requests made by your instance.
I attached Firefox logs of XHR requests made visiting your profile via https://mastodon.social. Also no tracking.
@jraedisch @fediverse this is a very good idea. Thanks. I can link to your post (if thats ok?) and my own acct too, as footnotes.
@DrPen @fediverse using my post is ok :).
@jraedisch @fediverse great! Its actually better than using my own. Ill link to the dependencies too. Its not a tech paper per se but this is the best evidence really.