About #2: you have any suggestion on how you could achieve that and still be federated?
It seem like you would need a central “oficial” instance that defines who is the “real” AskLemmy, etc…
But yeah, I really want to hear if you have ideas on how achieve this and maintain it as a federation.
There are many tiers of private information.
You can definetly collect a lot of useful telemetry data without collecting any of the, lets say, “most sensitive” private information.
Just to exemplify:
you can collect telemetry on the most acessed features of a software and associate it with their location: whilst collecting their location you can definetly choose between having the person’s specific location (GPS coordinates with a few meters of accuracy) or their broad location (i.e.: their city, state, or country).
Collecting someones specific location is definetly way more sensitive than their broad location…
And the full content of all textual documents a person generates has a very high chance of containing of their most sensitive private information…