• 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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      1 year ago

      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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            1 year ago

            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).

            • zwekihoyy
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              1 year ago

              if you don’t trust the instance why would you use it? 🤨

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                1 year ago

                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.

          • booty [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            1 year ago

            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?