Looking forward to end-to-end encryption in Mastodon if for no other reason the "aha! Mastodon's DMs are not really private" semi-bogus statement will finally be over.
Yes, it's true. Yes, it's a legitimate concern.
But:
1. Other sites and services (Twitter, FB, etc.) *also* have unencrypted DMs.
2. Mastodon devs are working on it.
3. Relatedly: Even email is not encrypted.
You have to trust your admins *everywhere*. (And prefer using end-to-end encryption whenever possible.)
@garrett I think it’s less that it isn’t encrypted - it is that it is easy to open up a n existing closed discussion
@f00fc7c8 @Migueldeicaza Yep.
You have to trust multiple admins who work at the same social network too. (Twitter has more than one, and so does Facebook.) And you have to trust multiple admins on each email server too.
People think big sites like Facebook are immune from this, but they've had employees reading people's DMs so many times that we know about (and surely more than we know):
And Musk's "Twitter Files" are in the same direction.
@garrett @f00fc7c8 @Migueldeicaza
Elon Musk has done humanity a great service by buying up Twitter and exposing the systematic and criminal manipulation it operates.
Twitter has censored reputable doctors in favor of corrupt institutions that have enforced a narrative and measures without scientific evidence.
It was already clear what was happening with the Lancet-gate and the rest, but it is good that the involvement of social networks has been confirmed.
Here there is even a study on the suppression of dissent on Covid19:
@post @garrett @f00fc7c8 god that was a stupid thing to post