Another reminder, since we got a lot of new people!

Please assume all messages you send on any mastodon instance are not private. While we have no interest in reading your private messages, they are not encrypted in sending or receiving instances, and we cannot guarantee your privacy, especially when they cross instance boundaries.

If you have something private and sensitive to say, take it to another, more privacy-oriented system.

Thank you and happy tooting!

@Taniwha Also worth being aware that unlike Twitter if you @ someone who isn’t in a private message it’ll drag them right into the message (as DMs here are basically just ‘private to those tagged’ wrapped in a DM-style interface) which might be undesired!