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.
@micahflee Is it anything you could help with on github?
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@micahflee I feel like PGP was made to solve exactly this kind of problem. Would we even need to change anything, except maybe relaxing the 500-character limit?