What you should not forget is that: public posts are public, private posts may still be public if sent to dishonest servers, DMs are not protected by encryption and rely on both involved instance's honesty.
If you allow everyone to follow you your data may get mined just as on the commercial platforms.
If you have a commercial bot (in disguise) in your followers, it will see and mine those toots.
Just being a federation is no silver bullet to the privacy issue. But ou aren't the product anymore.
Among the many good reasons to use mastodon for public discourse and something secure for those privacy things
It was suggested ages ago that Mastodon just be bundled with an xmpp server to handle DM and private multiuser chats in a combined interface. This is a solved problem; Mastodon is trying to reinvent the wheel.
@frankiesaxx @ckeen @RussSharek
after month of testing and running an und own matrix instance for me riot/matrix is the way to go for secure e2e encrypted 1:1 and group chat.
How much of a headache was setting up matrix server?
@RussSharek @frankiesaxx @ckeen pretty straight forward. secure freebsd setup, matrix, letsencrypt... point your dns, optionally setup a turn server and you are done
@kmj @RussSharek @frankiesaxx Last time I have had a look (1.5 yrs ago) the server implementations looked like still being under heavy development. How's that now?
@ckeen @RussSharek @frankiesaxx server runs stable, client linux, ios, android too. i am windows free, but ppl told me stable too. mac works fine too
@ckeen @RussSharek @frankiesaxx standard matrix/synapse server, client riot.im
@kmj @RussSharek @frankiesaxx which one is it?