• Melody Fwygon@lemmy.one
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    • It is not unsafe.
    • It is not 100% private. Admins can read your messages if they choose to investigate your messages.
    • It will not get blasted out to the whole fediverse; just to the recipient you indicated. (Unless an admin from the previous point reads your message and publishes it publicly on the fediverse)
    • You do not get to do anything naughty with it; expect to be caught if you break the rules.
    • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      It is not unsafe.
      It is not 100% private. Admins can read your messages if they choose to investigate your messages.

      These points contradict one another.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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        How so? The message is safely delivered solely to the intended recipient, albeit in plain text (not private).

        If there’s anywhere that the commonly used email analogy fits, I think it would be here

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              Unless I run a Lemmy instance myself (which is possible), I have zero reason to trust an instance’s admins.

              Even if my instance’s admin happens to be the founder of privacyguides.org, that doesn’t mean he will never read any “private” messages (or be forced by someone else to hand them over).

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                  Even if I did fully trust my instance, I also would have to trust any instance I message with.

                  I personally just use Lemmy for public comments.

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              What definition of safe are you using which makes a private messaging system without privacy safe? What would have to occur for it to become unsafe, if not being private does not make it unsafe in your eyes?