“Needs client app” is a funny way of saying it “supports open protocols as first class citizens”.

I’m biased, but I prefer Portuguese piri-piri sauce to Tabasco. If you want something fancier I can also recommend Crazy Bastard sauces which are made in Berlin…

Putin started, his underling is just finishing the job.

No, things like your home address, your IP address, birth date, health conditions, religion, etc are PII.

Upvotes almost certainly falls into “legitimate purposes” since the data is required for moderation.

Mastodon and Lemmy don’t actually share any data actually protected by GDPR, unless the users actively make it public (like using their real name).

Now try to learn Portuguese, or German, or Russian. English has wonky phonetics, but has a relatively simple grammar. As a bonus it’s not properly standardized, so whatever you come up with is going to be correct in at least one of the existing dialects.