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Maven Imported 1.12 Million Fediverse Posts (wedistribute.org)
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Maven, a new social network backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman, found itself in a controversy today when it imported a huge amount of posts and profiles from the Fediverse, and then ran AI analysis to alter the content.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

They're called DMs not PMs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

PM never implied any form of end to end encryption. It only ever meant people couldn't see it apart from site operators. I genuinely don't believe people thought it meant otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

But on a federated system, everyone can see all messages. That's expected.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

No, should just be your instance admin and the admin of the instance your messaging.

[–] QuadratureSurfer 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They're called DMs not PMs

? Did you mean that the other way around? And if you did... forgive me, I don't really use Mastodon. I was never much of a twitter fan. I don't really like how all of my likes are public (although I guess I have had to get used to that with Lemmy).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No. They're direct. They're not private.

[–] QuadratureSurfer 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ah, I see. So it's the same mistake that Lemmy users make when thinking that Upvotes/Downvotes aren't public.

It sounds like DMs on Mastodon are public, but are commonly mistaken to be private then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I don't know why anyone would think any of this stuff is private. It can be pseudonyms, but that's up to you.