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 I'd love to see many thngs and the open source way iz you contribute the things you want to see in the world. Mature, safe, and reliable systems don't happen overnght and this isn't a corporatin with unlimited budget.