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[–] thenexusofprivacy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fediverse software has followers-only posts, direct messages, local-only posts … Mobilizon and Streams even have private groups.

[–] Steve@communick.news 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

None of that is private. It's all readable by anyone with an admin account.
As a general rule. If it's not end to end encrypted, assume it's public.

"Readable by anybody with an admin account" is not the same as public. And as a bunch of people involved in January 6 found out, end-to-end-encrypting something doesn't keep mean it won't get revealed. So the general rule is assume anything you say online could be made public; use Signal (or some other encrypted messaging that you trust) and limit distribution to a small number of trusted people to reduce the chances of that happening -- but don't count on it!