Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services 🌐
Like most social networks, Mastodon is not end-to-end encrypted. If you're sending sensitive info it's better to use a separate end-to-end encrypted messaging app.
Mastodon itself warns you about this if you are sending a DM through the web interface (see the screenshot).
More info about the risks and how to mitigate them in the guide at:
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️ https://fedi.tips/is-mastodon-end-to-end-encrypted
TL:DR - Main risk is your server admin reading your DMs, but they would need techy skills to do this.
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James M.@jamesmarshall@sfba.social 🌐
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services yes, this is important to know! It's also worth mentioning that the ActivityPub folks are working to add end-to-end encryption to the protocols, so hopefully we'll get that at some point.