↳ In-reply-to » @tamer We're not trying to compete with anything... If you've read About Yarn.social -- In a nutshell I want to create an open, transparent social platform that respect's folks privacy and freedoms. It must also be easy to use and down-to-earth where human interactions actually matter. None of this rubbish of manipulating what you see, driving up engagement numbers to serve your advertisers and all that garbage

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.