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#Instagram will #discontinue #endtoendencryption for #directmessages after 8 May 2026, allowing Meta to access private messages. The change, which will likely raise #privacy concerns, may be linked to efforts to combat illegal material on the platform. https://www.androidpolice.com/instagram-is-getting-rid-of-end-to-end-encryption-for-dms/?eicker.news #tech #media #news

Instagram to discontinue end-to-end encryption for DMs [Update: Meta's statement]

Pulling the plug on privacy?

Android Police

ActivityPub for WordPress Feb 11

Roadmap 2026 — Charting the stars of the open social web

The 2026 roadmap focuses on making WordPress easier to discover and interact with across the Fediverse. Key areas include better search and recommendations through FASP support, Starter Packs to help users find communities, a more interactive Reader with reactions and replies, direct messages, and client-to-server APIs. Alongside these, we’ll continue improving interoperability, long-form publishing, and overall federation features.

https://activitypub.blog/2026/02/11/roadmap-2026-charting-the-stars-of-the-open-social-web/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose Jan 29

Mashable: TikTok says it’s ‘investigating’ its Epstein problem . “TikTok claims it isn’t deliberately censoring the name ‘Epstein’ in direct messages, but says it’s investigating a bug that stops some DMs that include the name from being sent.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/29/mashable-tiktok-says-its-investigating-its-epstein-problem/

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Jupiter Rowland Dec 27

@unattributed 𓂃✍︎ @Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @Social Web Foundation @Sovereign Tech Agency @Bonfire Ideally, one day, the highly advanced permissions system available on Hubzilla (based on Zot, ActivityPub optional), (streams) (based on Nomad, ActivityPub optional) and Forte (based on ActivityPub) would be cast into one or multiple FEPs.

This would solve this issue by not only controlling who receives a DM, but also who is permitted to see the DM. In combination with FEP-171b Conversation Containers (which was invented on (streams), inherited by Forte and backported to Hubzilla), the permissions of the DM would be inherited by all comments and replies to the DM with no way of ever changing these permissions anywhere in the conversation.

See, if I send a DM to Alice and Bob, then only Alice, Bob and I are permitted to see the DM. Also, only Alice, Bob and I are permitted to participate in the conversation, and Alice, Bob and I can see each comment and reply, but only the three of us are permitted to see them. The entire conversation has the exact same permissions all over, inherited from the initial DM.

Anyone of us can mention Carol all we want. But that does not give her permission to see anything in the conversation, not even the comment/reply that mentions her. Once the initial DM is out, its permissions are set in stone, and it's also set in stone that any and all follow-ups in the same conversation have the same permissions as the initial DM.

This does not even require encryption. That said, at least Hubzilla does offer encryption on top of the permissions system; however, it's only compatible within Hubzilla AFAIK.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #FEP_171b #ConversationContainers #Permission #Permissions #DM #DMs #DirectMessage #DirectMessages #PrivateMessage #PrivateMessages

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose Nov 23

Tubefilter: YouTube responds to “top feature request” by testing direct messages. “In Ireland and Poland, users above the age of 18 now have the ability to ‘share videos you love…and have conversations about them directly on the YouTube mobile app.'”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/23/tubefilter-youtube-responds-to-top-feature-request-by-testing-direct-messages/

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joe•iuculano

Nov 10

«#SocialMedia giant #Meta→about to start reading users’ conversations, including #DirectMessages (#DM) & chats with its #AI, with no option to opt out other than not to use their platforms – which include #Facebook, #Instagram & #WhatsApp, which provides no option to turn its AI off. This data access will start in most of the world from 16 December though in the #EU & #UK, which have stricter #DataProtection laws, it will start later – apparently from 4 March next yr»

https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/11/07/meta-ai-chats/

Meta - FB, Insta, WhatsApp - will read your DMs and AI chats, rolling out from Dec

Meta will soon be able to read users conversations via its AI function which cannot be turned off - if data protection laws don't stop them

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Kevin Karhan

May 1, 2025

@Octoomy @soop @protofoxriley or I'm posting whilst sitting in the grass...

Also that number includes #DirectMessages, so it's really not indicative...

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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] you joined infosec.space on Feb 08, 2024, since then you made 124,656 posts as of 7:51 AM EST today, if we were to divide that by 365, you were making on average 342 posts a day (rounded up). The grass you touch *might* be virtual.

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Raccoon🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈Sep 27, 2024

Three thoughts I want to share about the idea of #encryption on #DirectMessages in #ActivityPub.

The concept of microblogging, what this was all built for, is inherently public. You make an account on these sites because you want to be able to say things in public. While direct messages and followers only messages are extremely useful, and definitely worth having, they are something of a deviation from the central purpose here, and I worry that there is a false sense of privacy there. This may be worsened by adding encryption, as people may think encryption guarantees security. Only strong encryption run by the users themselves could guarantee security.

Conversely, there are people who use these services for journalism, government dissent, private transactions, and other things that require some security. Encryption would further protect these people in ways they might not be able to.

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#Fediverse #Mastodon #SWF