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Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts
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They're called DMs not PMs
? Did you mean that the other way around? And if you did... forgive me, I don't really use Mastodon. I was never much of a twitter fan. I don't really like how all of my likes are public (although I guess I have had to get used to that with Lemmy).
No. They're direct. They're not private.
Ah, I see. So it's the same mistake that Lemmy users make when thinking that Upvotes/Downvotes aren't public.
It sounds like DMs on Mastodon are public, but are commonly mistaken to be private then?
I don't know why anyone would think any of this stuff is private. It can be pseudonyms, but that's up to you.
PM never implied any form of end to end encryption. It only ever meant people couldn't see it apart from site operators. I genuinely don't believe people thought it meant otherwise.
But on a federated system, everyone can see all messages. That's expected.
No, should just be your instance admin and the admin of the instance your messaging.