Comment on The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse

Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• nix@merv.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Im mainly looking forward to it replacing the “DMs” of mastodon and lemmy.

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  • Jackthelad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ve not been on either platform long enough to use the DMs, but this is a good point.

    After all, DMs aren’t actually private on either platform, as far as I’m aware.

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    • sab@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If they're not end to end encrypted, your messages are not actually private on any platform.

      It's a bit more obvious in the Fediverse than elsewhere, as direct messages are generally stored on two separate servers (sender and receiver). Furthermore each server tends to be smaller: if Zuckerberg decides to go through people's DMs it's unlikely to affect any particular Facebook user, but if the owner of a Mastodon instance does the same it's small enough that she could actually get an overview. It's mostly a false sense of security embedded in larger services, but people are all about having a false sense of security.

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      • outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Like anything, depends on the threat model. Private from your little sister? Probably. Private from your boss, at least in the next few months prior to them being leaked? Also probably. Private enough?

        That’s to some extent a personal choice as everyone’s threat models differ. I suppose this fact (everyone having differing threat models) is one of the reasons that so many arguments occur over security.

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  • OverfedRaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep. That was my first thought - how everyone says to use Matrix rather than Lemmy DMs for anything sensitive. This will be fantastic.

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  • Wats0ns@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    TIL you can DM on lemmy

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tell 'em it’s the last one they’ll need to.

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• UdeRecife@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Right now I just think about me and how I’ll use it. I’m eager to try this messaging app to have a way of being reachable by like-minded people.

  To put it differently, I don’t want to be a slave of others’ choices. I know the network effect is real and that I’m powerless to break it. So I’ll just change my attitude, and embrace this wave. Who knows what will happen? And in the meanwhile, I’ll have fun using what to me seems right.

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