RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116222565495061519
People never understand that activitypub is fundamentally built for public data, any privacy controls have been superglued onto it and basically amount to good will behavior on the part of servers.
There's not actually anything preventing a rogue AP server from boosting private or follower only posts, for example.
Fedi is not the platform for privacy.
@twippedJocelynephiliac 
The fediverse has email-level privacy. E2EE would be better. And email-style private messaging is actually the default in AP, the special case is public posts. But it is important to know that email-level is, while not strong enough, stronger than eg what exists in ATProto (which doesn't have direct messaging either)
But it's completely true that like with email, you have to trust your server administrator.
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://social.coop/users/cwebber/statuses/116223116353268967 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
