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Mastodon instance admins can read PMs freely and more (twitter.com/dystopiabreaker)
6 points by nikivi on Nov 7, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Sure. The same goes for email, Twitter, Telegram, Nextcloud and any other service that is not end-to-end encrypted per default. However, I see the least danger with Mastondon, since the discussions usually take place in public anyway.

And: I don't know if this is only the case with the instance on which i am, but Mastodon is even transparent and displays the following hint when you want to send a PM.

> Posts on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon.


Why aren't PMs encrypted by receiver public key?




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