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X/Twitter Pause Encrypted DMs.
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this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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I doubt this is news to most folks on the Fediverse, but don’t trust Twitter, Facebook, or any company whose business model is advertising to secure your private conversations.
Even if they aren’t up to no good today, it is only a matter of time until they come for your messages.
As it happens, you shouldn’t trust Lemmy DMs either, as they’re not encrypted and can be read by instance administrators. So don’t use them to say anything that you wouldn’t be okay making public.
You're saying this on a platform that has no business model for making money and basically has no security or privacy because you're trusting whichever random people run the instances.