Another friendly reminder:
Mastodon is awesome, but mastodon isn't an appropriate tool if you want private communications. DMs aren't actually private, they can be seen by instance admins and maybe by other people, it isn't at all secure.
Mastodon and GNU social aren't made for private conversations, if you want to have a private conversation there are many tools that are appropriate for that.
I suggest Tox, but Cryptocat and XMPP with OTR are also good. There are others but I have used those
XMPP with OMEMO is the future! OTR should be thrown away and we shall all go OMEMO! It now has plugins in most OSes/clients...
<3 OMEMO (= the same type of crytographic ratchet used in Signal)
@jz I have not used that, I switched to Tox which has been awesome so far. I will try to look into it.
