You think Musk can't read your dms if he wants to?
Here you go. He wants to offer e2e dms. But right now even he admits Twitter dms are accessible.
“It should be the case that I can’t look at anyone’s DMs if somebody has put a gun to my head”
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And the Cheong guy posted a screenshot of a post from Stux where he complains about reports. Reports like people make here. Influencers hate mastodon because they are not treated like royalty there. So they shit on it.
Masto instances are like forums. If you expect them to work like private companies, you are better on a platform like Hive.
There are a LOT of issues with this platform. Most of them are highlighted by a server admin in this post:
Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: (@jerry@infosec.exchange)
But admins of instances are not passing their time reading your direct messages. There is a good reason why Twitter, Mastodon and even XenForo calls them DMs and not PMs. They are not private. They are not encrypted. And they are accessible to the owner of the platform.
Good luck to Twitter if they can turn their DMs into encrypted PMs. It would be great for their users. In reality, if you are having private conversations on any public platform that does not offer proper end to end encryption, it might be a good idea to stop doing that. Use Signal. Or any of the other apps that allows you to do that.
Mastodon could do better. Improve their message on the DM section where they just mention lack of end to end encryption. They should make it more visible that the owners of instances have access to their accounts. They can do anything with your accounts. It does not feel weird to me because I have been running a platform like that for 18 years now. But I get it, it is not obvious for regular folks who rely on services offered by big companies with well defined privacy policies and come under government regulations.
But spreading FUD is not the way to do it.
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