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mastodon inctances are prone to this. user data stored in plaintext, even PM are unencrypted and readable by design for moderation

by teakie 3y ago

dncornholio 3y ago
Mastodon has no secrets. Never post secrets on Mastodon. It will get broadcasted and can be abused. Treat system as such and you're golden.
- teakie 3y ago
  It's also bad for publishing (they now use the term too, anyways) all (I mean really like ALL of thoose tech savy people store their data in plaintext on someone computer, they not know what this thing does. there are many thousand on one instance. which disappears. maybe they where ethical people had no dirtmoney, couldn't exchange information to currency to pay the hoster.. I don't know. But you can get banned pretty quickly. Even when talking in private, a mod can decide it's creepy and ban you. they still have the data. you no access to your audience.
thejohnconway 3y ago
They aren’t PMs, they’re DMs.
- edgyquant 3y ago
  These are two words for the same concept.
  - runjake 3y ago
    Not at all. One is private, one is direct and not private.
    - hiatus 3y ago
      Twitter has DMs. Are they not private?
      - teakie 3y ago
        to most people YES, it pretty hard to grap DMs from twitters server. Especially compared to reading them in plaintext like on mastodon. you thing meta is not good but it's still e2ee so your better of writing there.
- teakie 3y ago
  they are actually toots. it's an feature that other people can read what you say in private to someone and ban you if it's creepy (the conversation) besaid feature is active on all instances it's not opt out. no instance has an inhouse fix (think they would post about it, since people like to talk in private. I mean almost every human on earth does use e2ee but mastodon is such an (honestly? the devs are drunk or something really fishy going on there. they got funding and build an client (that is exactly what was NOT need or useable or their thing)) clusterfuck. it's to complecated they say. I know, ping me if you have same thought, it's easy to fix!

mastodon inctances are prone to this. user data stored in plaintext, even PM are unencrypted and readable by design for moderation

by teakie 3y ago

mastodon inctances are prone to this. user data stored in plaintext, even PM are unencrypted and readable by design for moderation

dncornholio 3y ago

Mastodon has no secrets. Never post secrets on Mastodon. It will get broadcasted and can be abused. Treat system as such and you're golden.

teakie 3y ago
It's also bad for publishing (they now use the term too, anyways) all (I mean really like ALL of thoose tech savy people store their data in plaintext on someone computer, they not know what this thing does. there are many thousand on one instance. which disappears. maybe they where ethical people had no dirtmoney, couldn't exchange information to currency to pay the hoster.. I don't know. But you can get banned pretty quickly. Even when talking in private, a mod can decide it's creepy and ban you. they still have the data. you no access to your audience.

thejohnconway 3y ago

They aren’t PMs, they’re DMs.

edgyquant 3y ago
These are two words for the same concept.
- runjake 3y ago
  Not at all. One is private, one is direct and not private.
  - hiatus 3y ago
    Twitter has DMs. Are they not private?
    - teakie 3y ago
      to most people YES, it pretty hard to grap DMs from twitters server. Especially compared to reading them in plaintext like on mastodon. you thing meta is not good but it's still e2ee so your better of writing there.
teakie 3y ago
they are actually toots. it's an feature that other people can read what you say in private to someone and ban you if it's creepy (the conversation) besaid feature is active on all instances it's not opt out. no instance has an inhouse fix (think they would post about it, since people like to talk in private. I mean almost every human on earth does use e2ee but mastodon is such an (honestly? the devs are drunk or something really fishy going on there. they got funding and build an client (that is exactly what was NOT need or useable or their thing)) clusterfuck. it's to complecated they say. I know, ping me if you have same thought, it's easy to fix!