Michael StancliftTwitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”
WiseOldOwl@vmstan the big one I heard today was how DMs weren't safe on this site because the aren't encrypted and moderators and others can see them. They aren't really private.
Riley S. Faelan@WiseOldOwl @vmstan: Unlike ... er ... ?
@riley I don't understand. Can you give me more info?
@WiseOldOwl: The "DMs can be seen by sysadmins" is a red herring argument when comparing Mastodon/Fediverse against Twitter. Twitter doesn't have any more protections against corporate employees seeing DMs. If you want cryptographic privacy, use a cryptographic communications protocol like PGP or Signal.
@riley Ok, I was only commenting about what I had seen on the bird being discussed. I presonally don't have an issue. I have always been taught that with the internet speak as if anything you say could end up on the nightly news or a billboard for everyone to see or hear.