The interesting part in this article starts at the paragraph starting with : The biggest name in the Twitter replacement game is Mastodon
A community dedicated to fediverse news and discussion.
Fediverse is a portmanteau of âfederationâ and âuniverseâ.
Getting started on Fediverse;
I wish people would stop bringing up how admins can read DMs on Masto. Yes, they technically can but 99.9% of them could not give a shit about what youâre DMing to other users. Until Elon implements encrypted DMs, Twitter staff can read your DMs too.
The concept of learning a new set of rules (which are mostly just âdonât be an assholeâ and âdonât be a Naziâ) is a non-issue when your moderation team is actually made up of easily contactable people. If you donât like the rules, you can easily migrate your account elsewhere.
@Tempo @serenity Well, âTwitter staff can read DMsâ is a bit of an understatement.
âPrivateâ direct messages can be read by any third party app to which youâve given Twitter #OAuth permission.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/2227500/twitterâwho-is-reading-your-dmsâthere-s-an-app-for-thatâ.html
#Privacy
The big difference is that when client apps, be it for Twitter or just a regular old e-mail client reads your content - itâs working as intended.
If twitter staff does, theyâre not.
Assuming theyâre breaking user agreements etc.
@coldhotman I tend to agree with your statement concerning client apps because your data stays on your local device (unless that app is spyware). However, the concerning apps are 3d party cloud-services which use the twitter api. These include cloud automation. social media monitoring, and social media backup services. These services pull âprivateâ data directly off the twitter servers.