From 3b606bcc096a6d9860672e6d0d003ca9e80c067e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hannah Isopod Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:42:27 -0700 Subject: THE BIG ONE Total website redesign. Multiple new blog posts. Routine updates on several pages. Too much to list, even if I remembered it all. Remind me not to put this git repo on any portfolios. --- blog/posts/fediverse_dms/index.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'blog/posts/fediverse_dms') diff --git a/blog/posts/fediverse_dms/index.md b/blog/posts/fediverse_dms/index.md index a12c503..0d211e6 100644 --- a/blog/posts/fediverse_dms/index.md +++ b/blog/posts/fediverse_dms/index.md @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ People who refuse to use the fediverse (often conflated with Mastodon) often cite concerns about privacy with regards to DMs as their reason for avoiding it; "admins can read your DMs" and all that. To be fair, that's technically a true statement, but it's more complicated than that. Now, I have no problem letting these people be wrong - I'm not eager to convince idiots with no capacity for critical thinking to come to my favourite social network - but I'm nothing if not endlessly pedantic, so I felt the need to explain my take on the issue anyway. -## DMs Are A Lie +# DMs Are A Lie To begin with, the term "DM" as it applies to other social platforms is kind of a misnomer in the case of the Fediverse. Websites like Twitter and Instagram have a dedicated chat-style interface for messaging people directly. If you spend five minutes with most fediverse software, you'll notice that it doesn't have this. @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Sending a DM on the fediverse is generally accomplished by making a normal post In other words, when you send a "DM" on the fediverse, what you're really doing is making a public post, and asking the network nicely to only show it to the person it's intended for. All software that isn't actively malicious or *extremely* shitty will comply with this request, and in fact admins can only read your DMs by circumventing the instance software and accessing the backend database directly, but the post is in no way actually private. -## This Is Fine Actually +# This Is Fine Actually I don't personally think this is an issue; I think it's perfectly fine that the fediverse doesn't attempt to do secure communication. Doing things this way reduces liability for server owners and reduces the complexity of the software for developers, and you really should be able to contact anyone who you actually want to keep in touch with on multiple platforms anyway. -- cgit v1.2.3