Kevin Hughes 🐝
@kev@mcr.wtf 🌐
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services as a server admin I think it's worth mentioning that the techy skills required to read users' DMs are pretty trivial. I could do it very easily if I wanted.
Of course I don't, and won't, but I assume there are circumstances where I could be compelled to hand them over to law enforcement or something and I don't think I or the users would want to be in that position!
Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services 🏠
@kev@mcr.wtf
If you're a techy person they're trivial, but if you're e.g. running it on managed hosting the admin doesn't even get database access (though of course the hosting company staff do).
There's also the complication of moderating DMs, if someone reports it it becomes visible to the admin through Mastodon itself.