- public posts : google reads it, the nsa reads it, it gets put into every corporate datasets bc they know my posts are at the forefront of thoughts and poetry, everyone in the fedi reads & leaves a shitty reply full of heavy emotions bc im their mom dad three step parents and future child
- unlisted : my friends read it, their friends read it, their friends friends read it and leave a shitty reply, google, discord, and the nsa eventually read it, it might be put in a dataset or three, three fedi instance admins will see it in a boost, a sidekiq queue, and their report log. one of my nemeses might get a screenshot. if it shows up in court i say its performance art and i did it all for clout
- private : my friends wont read it but the weirdos who follow me in this timezone will, discord will eventually see a screenshot and train an image statistics machine on it, the nsa will process it in ten years
- dm : the receiver will see it, my co server admins will one day see it in an unlucky error message, the remote server admin will see it, the 15 years old hacker whos mining cryptocurrencies on their server to pad their allowance will see it, the person behind the receiver will read it, i mean behind them looking at the monitor. its their good friend so its all good. unless. thei read it out loud bc i am so good and funny, the alexa in the room sends it back to amazon, it gets put into seven datasets, and relayed to the nsa, who sends a drone to neutralize me immediately
- public posts : google reads it, the nsa reads it, it gets put into every corporate datasets bc they know my posts are at the forefront of thoughts and poetry, everyone in the fedi reads & leaves a shitty reply full of heavy emotions bc im their mom dad three step parents and future child
- unlisted : my friends read it, their friends read it, their friends friends read it and leave a shitty reply, google, discord, and the nsa eventually read it, it might be put in a dataset or three, three fedi...
@CobaltVelvet a sadly necessary cyber security analysis. thank you
@CobaltVelvet and that’s why I barely DM anyone on here lol
@CobaltVelvet lol, good job! you described that accurately, unless, it doesn't actually work that way. When a post is public, it's publically accessible to other instances, even when people aren't logged in on that instance, however I dk how easy it is for google and such to index it. Then, replies to a thread are unlisted by default, which means they aren't public, which means it would take a considerable amount of effort to index that stuff. Possible, but not likely to be done. But yeah, overall good take of the entire situation, even so, what's public is public to everyone in most cases, unless it's chat rooms aka matrix.
@CobaltVelvet lol, good job! you described that accurately, unless, it doesn't actually work that way. When a post is public, it's publically accessible to other instances, even when people aren't logged in on that instance, however I dk how easy it is for google and such to index it. Then, replies to a thread are unlisted by default, which means they aren't public, which means it would take a considerable amount of effort to index that stuff. Possible, but not likely to be done. But yeah, overall...