Rusty the Borgor King on Nostr: I feel like a hypocrite since one of the things people criticize Mastodon for is not ...
I feel like a hypocrite since one of the things people criticize Mastodon for is not having end-to-end encrypted DMs and I made a big stink about how that was a silly thing to be concerned about.
Now one of my big hesitations with #Fluxer is that your messages aren't end-to-end encrypted.
Like yeah I know I should trust my peers more than a big corporation, but there's something that makes me nervous about people more close to home being able to read my personal messages.
Mastodon DMs, in my mind, aren't really DMs, they're just really narrowly scoped public messages and you should use a messenger for real privacy. So not having that real privacy on a self-hosted messenger? I dunno. Makes me a little leery.
And yeah I know it's on the roadmap. I think I'd rather wait to use Fluxer until end-to-end encryption is deployed, vetted, and the default. I'm very excited for it to get that and federation.
I still have my personal Matrix server but I do not trust my ability as a baby sysadmin to run a Matrix server for a community of people.
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2026-08-29 18:56:30 UTCEvent JSON
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