An administrative announcement.
Motherfuckers.
https://mastodon.cloud/media/oxNPAqhKHeUAAvMv1X8

Q: How private is Mastodon / GNU Social?

A: Not very. Use email, XMPP, or other secure, encrypted protocols if you need privacy.

See: https://community.highlandarrow.com/notice/826830

@dredmorbius is there any philosophical reason why mastodon isn't on an encrypted protocol, or is it happenstance?

Also, as far as I can tell, everything on Mastodon is public anyway (e.g. no DM feature)

@abbenm As to philosophy regarding encryption, you'd have to ask @Gargron