Matt Blaze on Nostr: Reminder about Mastodon "private" messages. Aside from not being end-end-encrypted ...
Reminder about Mastodon "private" messages. Aside from not being end-end-encrypted (and so visible to instance administrators), they CC anyone @-mentioned ANYWHERE in the body of the message (not just those listed at the start).
They are now called "private mentions" rather than "private messages", but if you don't fully understand the semantics, this behavior may be unexpected and/or cause unpleasant side effects.
Published at
2023-10-08 22:04:43Event JSON
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