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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

besides the admins of both instances can read them as well.

What?

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait until you hear about the people hosting your email

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Haha, love the image. I think everyone feels that way the first time they learn it.

End to end encrypt emails whenever you can too. Now, getting those you communicate with to implement and utilize pgp? That's a whole other battle.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Nothing on lemmy is private. Your instance is just hosted on a server, and in this instance that server is essentially just someone elses computer. Anything you do or say on the server can be viewed by the admin and whoever they decide to delegate access to.

This is true for practically every online service ever.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the admin of your Instance has full access to your account as they have full access to the database that holds your dms

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah, really it would be surprising to me if this wasn't the case.