Jerboa doesn’t support DMs yet, it’s very new. Also, you should know that Lemmy’s DMs are not at all secure, and federated just like public posts, meaning admins can read them if they choose to. I’d suggest you use something like Matrix (sometimes known as Element) to DM people. :)
In most cases I’d just want to DM somebody to ask about something on Lemmy (i.e. message a mod) so nothing that I’d be too worried about privacy with, but yeah I kinda assumed they’re not super secure.
as an abstract thought… I have not seen a technical reason prohibiting federated e2e encrypted messages at some point in the future. so, when development can shift immediate focus from the “must-haves” and toward the “nice-to-haves”, we may well get secure, private, on-network DMs.
Jerboa doesn’t support DMs yet, it’s very new. Also, you should know that Lemmy’s DMs are not at all secure, and federated just like public posts, meaning admins can read them if they choose to. I’d suggest you use something like Matrix (sometimes known as Element) to DM people. :)
In most cases I’d just want to DM somebody to ask about something on Lemmy (i.e. message a mod) so nothing that I’d be too worried about privacy with, but yeah I kinda assumed they’re not super secure.
Then again I doubt Reddit etc were either
as an abstract thought… I have not seen a technical reason prohibiting federated e2e encrypted messages at some point in the future. so, when development can shift immediate focus from the “must-haves” and toward the “nice-to-haves”, we may well get secure, private, on-network DMs.
I know that soatok made a proposal for this a while ago, but I don’t know if it went anywhere.
thanks for this link! i had not seen it before.