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Samir Al-Battran

@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

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Darius Kazemi

@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.

Samir Al-Battran

@darius
I think it's "recourse" vs "trust"
if I know that a service provider is violating my privacy, I can take legal action!
On the other hand, if a hobbyist violated my privacy and use the excuse "this server has no privacy" as a defence, there is really nothing I can do.

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