Micah LeeApr 7, 2017
You know instance admins can read your direct messages in the fediverse? Twitter and Facebook also can - and sometimes do - read your private messages, and they have infrastructure to comply with law enforcement requests. I'd love to see some end-to-end encryption built into Mastodon clients.
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@micahflee Another reason why the "Pick a server that you trust!" blurb on Mastodon's front page makes me skittish.

For me at least, there aren't any!

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@auerbach @micahflee You could run your own instance. But all in all Mastodon doesn't seem to be well-suited for private communication, that's not the niche it fills. There are plenty of other projects for that.
Apr 7, 2017 at 5:42amWeb