Dear #TwitterMigration folks, an important tip on #privacy on the fediverse:
There is none.
This is a public medium; please treat it as such. Just as you have no privacy on Twitter (Elon Musk can read all your DMs), you have no privacy on the instance you’re on (your administrators can read all your posts).
You can set the visibility of a post but that’s a viewing suggestion, not a privacy guarantee.
Think of your posts as postcards, not sealed letters, and you should be fine.
Even if you run your own instance, like I do, you have no #privacy on the #fediverse.
Only I get to read the direct messages received at my instance but I have no control over who sees the direct messages I send to other instances.
So, again, until end-to-end encryption is mandated by the core protocol (ActivityPub), remember:
Treat all posts on #mastodon / the fediverse as public and use an end-to-end encrypted messaging app like Signal if you want to have private conversations with people.
@LunaDragofelis Indeed; and yet, sadly, are considerably more difficult to get started with/use.
A decentralised alternative doesn’t necessarily need to be more complicated. It’s just that Matrix is because reasons (read: “enterprise”).
Aral Balkan
Luna Saphira Dragofelis 🐱