I’ve just recently moved to Lemmy, and so far I’m enjoying it quite a bit. However, I’ve been thinking about the privacy issues whe DMing someone here.

Since this is a federated service, when you DM someone you have to trust both your server’s admin, as well as the recipient’s. Not that I particularly trusted reddit, but at least it was 1 corporation with (hopefully) some solid security procedures in place, and potential penalties for data breaches. Whereas in Lemmy, it might just be 2 random guys.

I’ve added an age key to my profile, in the hopes to make people aware of this issue. As well as giving them an option, if they wish to contact me privately.

I know, it’s not user friendly. But it’s the only way I could think of that wouldn’t rely on email + GPG. Does anyone know of a better solution?

EDIT: I also realise that not having signing capabilities might be an issue… So maybe reverting back to good ol’ GPG is a better option?

  • mim@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Thanks @owenfromcanada@lemmy.world, @russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net, @scarecrw@lemmy.one, @itsmect@monero.town, @BrikoX for mentioning the matrix integration. I was not aware of this feature.

    I’d like to avoid creating a new matrix account for lemmy (as I already have one). Haven’t tried to have 2 accounts open on one device yet (don’t even know if it’s possible).

    • itsmect@monero.townEnglish
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      2 years ago

      On Android, you can use Shelter (available on F-Droid) to install a second, independent instance of Element to the work profile. That way you can stay logged in with two accounts and receive notifications for both.

      • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Oh that’s awesome! I hadn’t seen that before, and was going to mention SchildiChat which is a fork of Element (and they maintain a few variants of it as well, explicitly to “emulate” multi-account support in a way) - but that works even better, and would apply to more than just Element!