Post #2107249

2026-05-04 04:11 UTC

First fo all: I don’t like this either. There is no private messaging system. Direct messages are unencrypted and potentially visible to any instance admins. They should not be used to share anything sensitive. Agreed, but that admin is breaking his promise, duty, responsibility (call it what you will) if they then upload these messages to an LLM for evaluation. I would argue for this being actually illegal, at least under the GDPR. But that was just one of many potential conflicts @rimu raised. We should concentrate on the real conflicts of LLM comment moderation. edit: yes, I have actively downvoted all comments I disagree with under this post (and upvoted all I agree with). I don’t usually do it so much, but this post is a sort of opinion polling.

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@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2026-05-04 04:15

It’s very clear on signup, on the READMEs, even on the DM portal itself, that messages are unencrypted and there is no sense of privacy, and that admins have full visibility and can do what they want with them. Agreed, but that admin is breaking his promise, duty, responsibility (call it what you will) if they then upload these messages to an LLM for evaluation. There is no promise, duty, or responsibility that an admin has beyond legal and what they themselves promise. The fediverse is great in that if you disagree with your admin, you are free to leave and choose a different one. As for GDPR, feel free to argue it, but when it’s claimed at every turn that messaging is unencrypted and basically open, well, I don’t think it’d hold up. It literally says to go use Matrix or something else.

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