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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users(www.eff.org)

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blueskies@lemmy.zip
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Good TLDR

I would also add:

Data gathered from the raid can be used to investigate and prosecute crimes unrelated to the original seizure.

Mastodon does not currently encrypt direct messages.

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That’s because Mastodon doesn’t have direct messages. It is not a chat platform. You can bend the privacy settings to publish posts similarly to DMs, but no one should use it as such.

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