The interesting part in this article starts at the paragraph starting with : The biggest name in the Twitter replacement game is Mastodon
The interesting part in this article starts at the paragraph starting with : The biggest name in the Twitter replacement game is Mastodon
I wish people would stop bringing up how admins can read DMs on Masto. Yes, they technically can but 99.9% of them could not give a shit about what you’re DMing to other users. Until Elon implements encrypted DMs, Twitter staff can read your DMs too.
The concept of learning a new set of rules (which are mostly just “don’t be an asshole” and “don’t be a Nazi”) is a non-issue when your moderation team is actually made up of easily contactable people. If you don’t like the rules, you can easily migrate your account elsewhere.
@Tempo @serenity Well, ‘Twitter staff can read DMs’ is a bit of an understatement.
“Private” direct messages can be read by any third party app to which you’ve given Twitter #OAuth permission.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/2227500/twitter–who-is-reading-your-dms–there-s-an-app-for-that—.html
#Privacy
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@coldhotman I tend to agree with your statement concerning client apps because your data stays on your local device (unless that app is spyware). However, the concerning apps are 3d party cloud-services which use the twitter api. These include cloud automation. social media monitoring, and social media backup services. These services pull ‘private’ data directly off the twitter servers.