they’re probably disconnected from internet, most likely misconfigured kms server or smth

for some reason, all these devices i see around these days seem to run android (one of 5/6/7/8 based on the exposed ui) or win10… haven’t seen any linux desktop-ish thing here

based

yes, things like age/gender/location/etc are the things that aren’t private on reddit but mostly are on fediverse. your instance admin could see your IP and use GeoIP for location but that’s it, a simple VPN can solve that. and unlike reddit where they do targeted ads and resell data, fedi instance operators are mostly hobbyists and I doubt that really happens… if you’re really worried you could just use throwaway accounts with a vpn and remain private.

you’re on a public forum and writing posts/comments in public which is pretty obvious, so i don’t see how that’s ‘no better’ than reddit. your votes are also public but that’s just how the fediverse works. unlike reddit everything’s (literally) transparent here, modlogs and everything.

KeePassXC ftw

there used to be a userscript that bypasses it, but sadly it stopped working a few years ago. haven’t found a solution since…

did see the dickpic shit, due to not much auto moderation there are quite a few of those…

the DM thing is weird, i never got any… (other than the nicole spam) perhaps you triggered some weird person :/