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They control the server that runs the software. So you trust them with every https request, your communication, your password. You trust their javascript.
by smolder 4y ago
They control the server that runs the software. So you trust them with every https request, your communication, your password. You trust their javascript.
- notpushkin 4y agoThis. But more importantly, you trust their judgement when it comes to moderation and defederation. While you don't understand these issues, you can either rely on somebody else's advice for that, or join a server at random and see what happens. Unless you've joined the new Gab, you should be okay – if anything goes wrong you can just migrate to another server. As for the things you've mentioned: you shouldn't assume your communication is private anywhere on Mastodon (there's some encryption proposals, but that's a long road from now), and you definitely should use different passwords for different websites.
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- nomel 4y agoYou must also trust them to read you DMs: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18079