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I love the enthusiasm but it's funny to say posting to a platform that makes copies on other servers and opens up APIs that make it very easy to scrape and build a profile with a little scripting has any privacy.
It's still better than meta or Twitter but your not private on these platforms. The companies that might make accounts to advertise from can easily be blocked and need to try harder to actually get your attention.
Just be weary AI and ad companies are probably already scraping these platforms and it's thanks to the open nature and the inherent flaws of modern monolithic social media design.
The author switched Google services for privacy ones. It was not related to Fediverse activity.
I mean most of those are replacing platforms from meta and Twitter with fediverse based platforms but that's not the point.
I read it more like the author was replacing Google Photos, Drive, Maps, etc.