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The free fediverses should focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety (privacy.thenexus.today)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] 23 points 2 years ago* (6 children)

If something is on a public unencrypted website, it isn't private.

Unfortunately certain people have chosen to mislead users about this.

You may as well post your ass on a billboard then complain that people look at it.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago (5 children)

    Fediverse software has followers-only posts, direct messages, local-only posts … Mobilizon and Streams even have private groups.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    None of that is private. It's all readable by anyone with an admin account.
    As a general rule. If it's not end to end encrypted, assume it's public.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's missing the point though: if something isn't completely private then it has the chance of going public. Too many services pretend to be more private than they really are by using terms like "private message" when all they're really offering is a relatively small barrier to seeing your data, especially if anyone can set up their own instance.

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 2 years ago

    "Readable by anybody with an admin account" is not the same as public. And as a bunch of people involved in January 6 found out, end-to-end-encrypting something doesn't keep mean it won't get revealed. So the general rule is assume anything you say online could be made public; use Signal (or some other encrypted messaging that you trust) and limit distribution to a small number of trusted people to reduce the chances of that happening -- but don't count on it!

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