I think that expectation of privacy is mostly misplaced and the hosting providers are the least part of the concern: anyone who’s “friends” with more than a han

I think that expectation of privacy is mostly misplaced and the hosting providers are the least part of the concern: anyone who’s “friends” with more than a handful of people on social media should be treating all the posts on that platform as potentially public: there’s no way to prevent one of your connections from screenshotting and/or otherwise broadcasting your “private” posts. In this way, the older unauthenticated model of the internet was better: by not creating an illusion of privacy around your website (think c2.com or Wikipedia), it does not encourage you to rely on that illusion for safety.