And if you’re concerned at all about Yarn pods being “data collecting” servers
let me assure you they are NOT.

This is the “data” that is stored in a typical Pod for a given User:

{
  "Key": "/users/admin",
  "Value": {
    "Username": "admin",
    "Password": "32768$8$7$7ab59fdc0923c558566cc2c5b4b0585c$cb9be16b339739fc3c786a9a41964af7e7a0183fd06489c9a7877369b4ed84ea",
    "Tagline": "",
    "URL": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/admin/twtxt.txt",
    "CreatedAt": "2022-01-11T19:09:40.613876+10:00",
    "LastSeenAt": "2022-01-12T10:00:00+10:00",
    "Theme": "auto",
    "Lang": "",
    "Recovery": "email:bzlvdqbg4vb3f2flf2ygbgo2uhi6lx2ho6hxpb72vnc434jp4oua",
    "AvatarHash": "",
    "DisplayDatesInTimezone": "UTC",
    "DisplayTimePreference": "24h",
    "OpenLinksInPreference": "newwindow",
    "HideRepliesPreference": false,
    "DisplayImagesPreference": "inline",
    "DisplayMedia": true,
    "OriginalMedia": false,
    "IsFollowersPubliclyVisible": true,
    "IsFollowingPubliclyVisible": true,
    "IsBookmarksPubliclyVisible": true,
    "Feeds": [
      "news",
      "help",
      "support"
    ],
    "Bookmarks": {},
    "Followers": {},
    "Following": {
      "admin": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/admin/twtxt.txt",
      "help": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/help/twtxt.txt/twtxt.txt",
      "help@10.0.0.109": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/help/twtxt.txt",
      "news": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/news/twtxt.txt/twtxt.txt",
      "news@10.0.0.109": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/news/twtxt.txt",
      "prologic": "https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt",
      "support": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/support/twtxt.txt/twtxt.txt",
      "support@10.0.0.109": "http://10.0.0.109:8000/user/support/twtxt.txt"
    },
    "Muted": {}
  }
}

Couple of things to note:

• We do not store Email addresses – Only a “Recovery Hash”
  
• LastSeenAt is only accurate to a day.
  
• Everything else you see is what is also publiclly visbhle on your feed itself
  
• The Settings allow you to turn on/off visibility of your “Following” and “Followers” as well as “Bookmarks”
  

Every other field in the dadtabase on User object is quite literally driving the
very nice User Expeirence that @ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com and @fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com has worked so hard on.

And honestly even CreatedAt can be turned down to an accuracy of a day. We don’t need it for any purpose except for pruning “dead accounts”.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @movq@www.uninformativ.de Thoughts on this?🤔