Yes. I would even argue that Privacy expectations should be much weaker than for the big centralized platforms. Mastodon's instances admins have blanket read a

Yes. I would even argue that Privacy expectations should be much weaker than for the big centralized platforms. Mastodon's instances admins have blanket read access to every post and message, even the "private ones", yet they are not under scrutiny of RGPD regulators like for example Twitter. Are you sure those admins take good security measures, like storing backups encrypted, keeping their tech stack minimal and up to date, using safe configs? Do you trust them for not reading and sharing your conversations? Regarding the Fediverse search, it's even worse as you're supposed to trust the rest of the world for not abusing it and indexing the entire network. Well, that's not how things works. With this kind of large scale systems you should know that if there is the possibility of an event, that event will happen very soon if not already. Either you impose restrictions or you accept the tradeoffs.