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1. Dr. Edward Morbius :o: (dredmorbius)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2017 06:52:07 EDT Dr. Edward Morbius :o:

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   Q: How private is Mastodon / GNU Social?

   A: Not very. Use email, XMPP, or other secure, encrypted protocols if you need privacy.

   See: https://community.highlandarrow.com/notice/826830

   • MMN-o ✅⃠ repeated this.
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2017 07:23:36 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Dr. Edward Morbius :o:
     @dredmorbius But at least you can use #tor against most instances afaik. !GNUsocial also works hard on avoiding third party servers, so no external javascript (also compatible without javascript at all) as well as locally stored media. Not even third party servers with a misleading domain name (i.e. Amazon S3 on a subdomain.service.example DNS).
   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Sunday, 09-Apr-2017 07:41:23 EDT MMN-o ✅⃠

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     Pseudonymity is king in a decentralised network and anonymous access to your pseudonym means mass-duplication publishing of possibly sensitive data. That's one security/privacy combination out of many.
     !XMPP is good in other ways, for other security/privacy scenarios.