technical note about this tech as I see some confusion/misconceptions:
Admins of your instance have complete control over your account. Really, we can read all the posts (including DMs) and we can even impersonate/hack your account with ease.
Make sure you trust your admins.
Here on toot.cat we have a CoC that applies to both admins and non admins. Admins are expected to abide by the CoC and not oppress users as well.
@polymerwitch Is it terrible that I imagine someone will eventually write a client that encrypts, chops messages into 500 character chunks, and sends them through Mastodon DM as a security tunnel?
Because honestly, I only know 3/4 of that would be feasible and I have no idea how much of a server PITA that stuff would be. (I barely did dev work, but I'm very good at breaking shit, that's why I was in QA, but I know zip all about stuff that would, to others, obviously overload things.)
@sydneyfalk I think that will happen too, but I think the answer is to treat DMs here as hidden, but not private. If you want private messages using signal or riot.im as a back channel makes sense to me
@polymerwitch I was aware of signal, but riot.im is news to me. :) TYVM!