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1. Brendan Molloy (piecritic@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 18-Aug-2018 17:29:01 JST Brendan Molloy

   People will argue that using DMs on here is unsafe because the admins of servers can view it. Arguably, you should use DMs for no more than you should be using them on any platform that doesn't encrypt them end to end, like Twitter.

   It's about assessing your own operational security risk. Use DMs like private messages on Slack or a forum. Use Signal or another encrypted messenger if privacy is highly important.

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   • Vaporwave Singapore (meireikei@moeplebs.online)'s status on Sunday, 19-Aug-2018 11:44:14 JST Vaporwave Singapore

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     @piecritic is there any interest in building some kind of encryption system for DMs that prevents even server admins from seeing the contents of private messages? of course you could do this now by going through the cumbersome manual process of encrypting your DMs out-of-band and sending the ciphertext, but that's too much friction to expect people to use, and it might be good to have it built into the protocol.