Hey everyone. Just making sure everyone knows that direct messages on here are not end-to-end encrypted. They work more like a post, with visibility set to the person/people you tag.

This means an admin (like me), can read these by looking at the database/in backups.

I promise never to do this.

If that's not good enough (which is fine, obviously), please use something like signal for DMs

p.s. Twitter DMs are also not encrypted and anyone there can read them too.

@Psy_Fer_ It's probably not true that "anyone [at Twitter] can read [your DMs] too"

It is true "that there are people at Twitter that can read them", but I think if anyone at Twitter could login and read the database, it'd be both bad practices and not GDPR-compliant

@luispedro Sure you are probably right. They also built end-to-end encryption for their DMs, but never implemented it...for reasons?
Anyway, it will be great when that feature is created and implemented here.