• TrustingZebra@lemmy.one
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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?