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In this case the admins of this instance voluntarily disclosed the breach. What are the odds that in some future breach, on some other instance, the users will not benefit from the same treatment? And how should Mastodon users behave online as a result?

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The Fediverse is by and large an unencrypted platform, and users should be under no illusion that toots and private messages are accessible to anyone with access to the server.

This is an acceptable tradeoff for most people, and you can use Briar if it isn't an acceptable tradeoff for your social circle.

What's the difference between that or something like Twitter? Breaches happen all the time, and companies don't always disclose them.

If twitter is breached then my ycombinator account isnt also gone.

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