Anything I consider important that I post online is pretty much public. I also wrote private messages on Facebook, but I didn't upload photos or text posts that

Anything I consider important that I post online is pretty much public. I also wrote private messages on Facebook, but I didn't upload photos or text posts that I didn't want the world to see. For that kind of stuff, encryption is just a giant waste of resources, in my case, so if I ran mastodon on my server, I would be glad that I can turn that off. I still fell victim to apparently being reported as non-human (after 9 years of using FB with over a hundred RL friends and former class mates, many photos of me, real name from day one, and so on), and while I could send a photocopy of my ID to Facebook, as a matter of principle I didn't and won't, not without even having the right to confront my accusers. For all I know, they're bots, at best some people who didn't like a comment I made on some article -- and from the accounts of others, even showing your ID doesn't mean you won't get fucked over in a similar way again. There is just no real recourse, so why even start jumping through hoops, I'm not going to be party to normalizing that nonsense. I also don't believe in technical solutions to social problems. Encryption gains me nothing in a world where my neighbours just shrug when I get carted off for having using encrypted communication -- or get booted off Facebook -- so that needs to be "fixed" anyway, and should it ever be, encryption would be something that protects you against criminals and assholes, not something that protects you against big brother. IMO it's lethal to assume it ever could or should. It's something we can and should use on our way to social solutions to social problems, but not something to rely on. I know that many people in other countries or very different circumstances NEED encryption, so they should have it, and I might use it out of solidarity and to give them cover even -- but that won't fix the problem anymore than Napster fixed the music industry.