@darius not exactly the same, Darius.
Your email server and the recipient's server are run by an admin that's usually governed by a confidentiality agreement and can lose their job if they viewed or shares a private email.
Besides the OG instances and the few company ones, most people have Mastodon accounts on servers run by hobbyists, no confidentiality, no SOPs
@Samir You're right they are not the same in that respect.
I do not have very much trust for companies with liability protections in place -- I would rather trust a hobbyist. I realize that other people trust corporations with legal liability more, and that's reasonable of them too, though I certainly disagree with their conclusion about where to place trust.