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Mastodon has no secrets. Never post secrets on Mastodon. It will get broadcasted and can be abused. Treat system as such and you're golden.


It's also bad for publishing (they now use the term too, anyways) all (I mean really like ALL of thoose tech savy people store their data in plaintext on someone computer, they not know what this thing does. there are many thousand on one instance. which disappears. maybe they where ethical people had no dirtmoney, couldn't exchange information to currency to pay the hoster.. I don't know. But you can get banned pretty quickly. Even when talking in private, a mod can decide it's creepy and ban you. they still have the data. you no access to your audience.




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