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noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store (techcrunch.com)
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[–] jorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They're saying they might ask to collect this additional information. A lot of the information, as others have pointed out, is also common and necessary for some basic operations of a service like this.

This is an overreaction, there are many good reasons not to like this app but misunderstanding their data policy isn't one