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1. Fedi.Tips (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Jul-2022 03:26:39 UTC Fedi.Tips

   If you're using Mastodon, you can put your new posts under maximum privacy by doing both of these:

   1. Log in through your server's website, go to Edit Profile > Require follow requests, save changes. This means only people you approve can follow you.

   2. Set your posts' privacy to "Followers only" when you post them (the setting with the lock 🔒 logo). You can make "followers only" default by going to Preferences > Other > Posting Privacy > Followers only.

   However, only do this if you are okay with greatly restricting your audience by default. These settings will completely prevent non-followers seeing your new posts (unless you manually select a more public privacy setting when you write them).

   Non-followers will not be able to search for followers-only posts, or see them in shares.

   Also, bear in mind this privacy setting only applies to your new posts. If you've already posted something as public, that old post will remain public.

   #MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Privacy

   • Fedi.Tips (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Jul-2022 03:26:36 UTC Fedi.Tips

     in reply to

     • Masto.host
     • Privacy Guide 1984
     • Threema

     @datenschutzratgeber @mastohost @threemaapp

     Centralisation brings risks of being bought out by bad actors. Whatsapp was sold to Facebook by the same billionaire who now owns and runs Signal.

     It's difficult to escape centralised services if this happens.

     There's no perfect solution, but I wouldn't recommend going on centralised services because there's no easy way off them if they start eroding their privacy (which is something that has happened before).

     cr0n0s:~🐧📡⌨️ 🛠️ # repeated this.
   • Privacy Guide 1984 (datenschutzratgeber@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Jul-2022 03:26:37 UTC Privacy Guide 1984

     in reply to

     • Masto.host
     • Threema

     @feditips @mastohost For maximum #privacy, consider using a centralized messenger aimed at reducing #metadata, such as #Signal or @threemaapp. While federated services like #Matrix or #XMPP are great for independence from big tech, they're not a good choice if you're trying to hide with whom, when, how often etc. you're chatting.

   • Fedi.Tips (feditips@mstdn.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Jul-2022 03:26:38 UTC Fedi.Tips

     in reply to

     • Masto.host

     A couple of follow-on things to add to this:

     - Mastodon does not (yet) have end-to-end encryption, so please don't post any sensitive information on here. Use an e2ee messenger app (such as XMPP with OMEMO switched on) for anything like that. The privacy settings on Mastodon are about adjusting your audience rather than guaranteeing absolute privacy.

     - If you set your default privacy to followers only, this will also affect your boosts, and override their visibility settings. So, if you have followers-only as default privacy and boost a public post, the only people who see your boost are your followers. (This is apparently undocumented, thank you to @mastohost for spotting this!)

     #MastoTips #Mastodon #FediTips #Privacy

   • Privacy Guide 1984 (datenschutzratgeber@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Jul-2022 03:27:06 UTC Privacy Guide 1984

     in reply to

     • Masto.host

     @feditips @mastohost The only messenger that is end-to-end encrypted, has no central server AND protects metadata is Briar. Though, Briar isn't very beginner-friendly, since, as a peer-to-peer messenger, it requires both chat contacts to be online at the same time for a message to be delivered.