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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about messages? Where do they live and can they be seen by anyone?

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Much like reddit, facebook or other apps with dms, only the instance owners (of the instances the users belong to) can see them. They aren't encrypted. There was some work on e2ee messages on the Mastodon side but it stagnated.