I'm pretty sure that the #Fediverse is one of the first social networks I've been on that didn't ever ask me to betray any of the people in my address book.
I mean, think about this for just a sec: LinkedIn, Twitter, SnapChat, Instagram, the list goes on and on. The VERY first thing these platforms will do after you've installed the app and logged in is to ask you to share all of the information in your address book. Ever wonder how these social networks got so big so fast? It's remarkable how much of their growth is based on convincing everyone it's totally fine and normal to give away all of the contact information given to them by friends, family and acquaintances.
@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 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.
@briankrebs
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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