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Are private Pixelfed photos encrypted? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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I just closed my Instagram account and was about to start uploading my photos to a private account on Pixelfed.

I was just wandering if the images I upload are stored encrypted or if everything is stored as is on the server.

I couldn't see any mention of it, so I assume an instance owner could just go through everyone's photos on the server even if they're marked as private.

I tried looking through the source code to see if I could answer the question myself, but nothing is jumping out at me.

So hopefully someone with more knowledge than me can answer this question for me, thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I was more looking for social media rather than a private cloud image storage, I'll probably still go ahead with using Pixelfed. I was just hoping it wouldn't be possible for the host, to take everyone's private photos and dump them online if they wanted to.

I guess Instagrams level of privacy would be similar and employees at Meta would be able to look at people's private photos too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Pixelfed isn't private. Mastodon isn't private. Lemmy isn't private. All privacy is account privilege based.

The person who's paying for the hard drive gets to see what's on it.