Liv 🐝Feb 21, 2024
Oh we’re doing “your admins can see your DMs” again?

You’ll never guess what’s true about literally every website that has a DM feature
Show threadLiv 🐝Feb 21, 2024
I’ve worked for Big Companies and I could see real production data for real customers without even being an admin or support person

The difference with fedi is I have literally met the admin of this instance in real life and I know they would not do this
Show threadIsaac 'Atridas' Serrano GuaschFeb 21, 2024
@olivvybee I've worked for big companies and there where very serious hoops you'd have to jump before being allowed anywhere near private data
Show threadLiv 🐝Feb 21, 2024
@Atridas (sometimes)

but yes the point is you can do it, it's not impossible – the same as on fedi
Show threadIsaac 'Atridas' Serrano GuaschFeb 21, 2024

@olivvybee the only thing that could prevent it on the fedi is some kind of end to end encryption, and that'd be untrivial to build.

As of other companies, not only the friction to get there is important, but the accountability of something goes wrong too. And I've seen high standards there. It is possible.

Show threadEniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Feb 21, 2024
@Atridas @olivvybee okay but the latest trendy thing to do is for companies to sell your DM data to large language model training companies
Show threadIsaac 'Atridas' Serrano Guasch
@eniko @olivvybee ok. Should fedi then sell your DMs to LLM?
Feb 21, 2024 at 2:06pmWeb