Dear #TwitterMigration folks, an important tip on #privacy on the fediverse:
There is none.
This is a public medium; please treat it as such. Just as you have no privacy on Twitter (Elon Musk can read all your DMs), you have no privacy on the instance you’re on (your administrators can read all your posts).
You can set the visibility of a post but that’s a viewing suggestion, not a privacy guarantee.
Think of your posts as postcards, not sealed letters, and you should be fine.
@aral great point! What do folks here use for DM anyway. Signal? But how to link to yourself… still trying to figure out that gap in my #TwitterMigration
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@matschaffer @aral excellent question. Funny I didnt realise there are no DMs here, LOL.
@nosherwan @aral there's a handful of colleagues I still DM with on twitter as a default. No idea what to ask them to switch to 😆
@matschaffer @aral well there must be a open source version of a direct messaging app...
I do use #whatsApp for #family and friends, but its not ideal.
@nosherwan @matschaffer @aral Email is open source messaging that everyone has built into every device and will probably never go away. Have you tried @delta as a client that works a lot like WhatsApp?
@matschaffer @nosherwan @aral There are a lot of advantages, and the disadvantages might be mitigated with stuff like DANE soon. I wrote this a while back: https://pocketnow.com/10-ways-delta-chat-is-better-than-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram/
@adam @matschaffer @aral Nice article 👍🏼
@adam @nosherwan @aral @delta hey thanks! Interesting approach to the problem.