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
@inmysocks How about Keybase.io and saltpack messages?
@wishx they aren't bad services, they are good for ensuring identity and preventing eavesdropping, I am not sure how they are about metadata, I haven't looked at it much.
I dislike having to use someone elses server so I have been avoiding keybase.io
