Privacy and Security on Mastodon
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Privacy and Security on Mastodon
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Mastodon is an open-source and decentralized social network that has been growing in popularity for the past few years.
While most social media rely on commercial models harvesting users' data to sell to advertisers, Mastodon offers a human-centric alternative that doesn't seek profits from your data and attention. This means better social connections, better controls, and better privacy.
Mastodon doesn't use your data to make money. This fact alone comes with incredible benefits for data privacy and security. Because the goal isn't to collect as much information as possible on its users, Mastodon embraces data minimization and only requires providing what is truly needed to run the service for you.