"How could I ever trust my Mastodon admin with my data? A large company like Twitter is more secure because they have proper procedures in place" A large company like Twitter:
@Gargron If they can easily bribe a highly paid silicon valley admin, how easy will it be to bribe a fediverse volunteer admin you think?
@Gargron Less of a target and more likely to care about what they do. So.....
VKontakte isn't much better than that tbh
@Gargron
Don't trust the Mastodon instance admin? Just host your own.
Don't trust the Twitter admin? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Gargron reuters sucks anyway they fear monger. I've seen "news" about covid on that site that wasn't on any other website so it's a fake news website.
@Dan_S @Gargron P.S. I'm not trying to normalise misinformation here, I'm simply pointing out a common trend in sources of information, like news websites.
Personally, I commend your skepticism of news sources. It's always good to check the biases, and the legitimacy of the author of an informational article.
@Gargron
If you are paranoid about this just host your own instance.
But I think the main problem remains to make sure your identity is not spoofed.
@Gargron interesting read!
@Gargron oh wow, so they bribed a Twitter engineer to get all that juicy data
@Gargron what? Uh.....no.
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!
@Gargron bwahahahahahahahaha