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Fedi Fox

@fedifox@ohai.social
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#privacy #research

I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy.

Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data.

Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security.

As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

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Joined January 01, 2026

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Fedi Fox @fedifox@ohai.social · Feb 01, 2026
Fedi Fox
@fedifox@ohai.social

#privacy #research I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy. Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data. Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security. As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

ohai.social
Replying to @PrototypeFund@mastodon.social
@PrototypeFund@mastodon.social @blinry@chaos.social @zormit@chaos.social @teamtype@fosstodon.org @p2panda@autonomous.zone Thank you very much for this important contrib! Fediverse needs much more devs that are building privacy into their projects right form the beginning! One of the best features of teamtype is encrypted peer-to-peer connections, I hope this can be adopted to the fediverse!
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Fedi Fox @fedifox@ohai.social · Feb 01, 2026
Fedi Fox
@fedifox@ohai.social

#privacy #research I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy. Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data. Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security. As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

ohai.social
Replying to @_elena__dup_5049@mastodon.social
@_elena@mastodon.social @liaizon@social.wake.st @Sascha@bonn.social @benpate@mastodon.social #FOSDEM #Fediverse #Privacy We need to be careful with this Fandom-ization of the fediverse. Fandom creates blind followers and makes critical thinkers potential enemies of the groupthink. Mastodon is a giant dangerous experiment that does NOT protect user data and has no e2e encryption! This is NOT a win for humanity, but creating the next big brother network masked as "cool b/c federated". We need to build privacy aware networks now!
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Fedi Fox @fedifox@ohai.social · Jan 31, 2026
Fedi Fox
@fedifox@ohai.social

#privacy #research I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy. Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data. Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security. As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

ohai.social
Replying to @raffomania@mstdn.io
@raffomania@mstdn.io Interesting project! Does it encrypt user data?
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Fedi Fox @fedifox@ohai.social · Jan 31, 2026
Fedi Fox
@fedifox@ohai.social

#privacy #research I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy. Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data. Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security. As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

ohai.social
Replying to @kirschner@mastodon.social
@kirschner@mastodon.social @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Mastodon does not protect your private communication, no end to end encryption. Also it does not encrypt user data, so please be aware that this software is dangerous for use as a "social network".
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Fedi Fox @fedifox@ohai.social · Jan 20, 2026
Fedi Fox
@fedifox@ohai.social

#privacy #research I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy. Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data. Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security. As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

ohai.social
Replying to @MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social
@MastodonEngineering Does it fix missing e2ee and encryption of user data?
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Fedi Fox @fedifox@ohai.social · Jan 06, 2026
Fedi Fox
@fedifox@ohai.social

#privacy #research I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy. Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data. Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security. As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

ohai.social
Replying to @caseynewton@mastodon.social
You did not debunk anything here, just published two little pieces of pseudo-information with a lot of unrelated and probably AI generated text around to get more views. A good journalist would go out and speak to real people working for these companies to produce some reliable facts. You just sit at your computer and produce AI text, this is not enough.
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Fedi Fox @fedifox@ohai.social · Jan 06, 2026
Fedi Fox
@fedifox@ohai.social

#privacy #research I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy. Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data. Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security. As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

ohai.social
Replying to @soupglasses@hachyderm.io
Zero facts presented here. AI result saying something might be an AI result is NOT a fact. But "Journalist" using AI result as if it was a fact says a lot about "journalist" competence.
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Fedi Fox @fedifox@ohai.social · Jan 06, 2026
Fedi Fox
@fedifox@ohai.social

#privacy #research I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy. Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data. Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security. As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

ohai.social
Replying to @stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de
"Believable" We need to think really hard about how to publish provable facts on the internet. Fediverse just copy pasting ad network features but with private censorship will not help. There is still absolutely no valuable hard fact presented that the Whistleblower was fake, just two very weak bits of pseudo-facts. One Gemini (AI!) result that might be wrong and one person "saying something" about how companies work. This is not enough to draw any conclusions about anything.
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Fedi Fox @fedifox@ohai.social · Jan 06, 2026
Fedi Fox
@fedifox@ohai.social

#privacy #research I dedicate this account to the issue of fediverse privacy. Unfortunately we are seeing a widespread use of software as an alternative to corporate networks that does not encrypt private messages and user data. Mastodon makes it very easy to sniff on users and should be rejected by a community of people with many having a professional background in programming and security. As I already received a lot of harassment for pointing out facts I prefer to stay private.

ohai.social
Replying to @boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place
@boggo@mastodon.gamedev.place @caseynewton@mastodon.social Without any way to check the actual facts you made up your mind about something? Just by your "gut feeling"? With no way to check if it actually is true or not? No, it is not a "fact" or a "confirmation of truth" if there is some other text on the internet about the same issue. "Social media" is not made for confirming truth, but for spreading ads to target groups.
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