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    2 years ago

    @simon_lucy @raccoon @fediversenews @fediverse they are not, true, but in the sense that you can’t view posts if they weren’t addressed to you, unless you’re an instance administrator, they are still private. If we’re arguing technicalities, then yes, private means end to end encrypted and mostly nothing else, but I think it’s quite obvious what I ment by saying it.

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      2 years ago

      @bgtlover @raccoon @fediversenews @fediverse

      Addressed to you?
      They have public URLs, if they’re boosted then whoever follows the booster can see it, whoever scans the instance local feed it was originally posted on can see it.

      This is not email, those that use email as an analogy confuse people because of that.

      If it’s directed, confined to just those mentioned then it isn’t published in the same way but that’s fragile and a small case.