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 This is just a reminder to all that Bluesky DMs are not private. https://i.nostr.build/ct9kgJEltFWo0A6t.jpg 
 Brazilians joining need to be aware of this. #Brasil #Brazil  
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 DM me via carrier pigeon. 
 Cage to Cage DM's 
 WTF. How are people even ok with this,  is a complete mistery to me 😳
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 Bluesky is a total shitshow  
 What’s Bluesky?  #nostronly 
 Same deal with mastodon DMs. 
 Absolutely true. Mastodon server instance admins can read everything in clear text. 
 Is there any good reason they kept DMs in cleartext?  
 No? 
 It's kind of a trick question since there is no valid reason for doing cleartext DMs but I'm at the same time genuinely interested in why they went with it anyways. 
 I have no idea. Maybe someone more versed in the protocol can answer? nostr:nprofile1qqsqgc0uhmxycvm5gwvn944c7yfxnnxm0nyh8tt62zhrvtd3xkj8fhgpzdmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ue0hswhhl 
 Poor Alex, we've tagged him multiple times today about this same question in another thread 😂 
 🫠 
 It's cleartext because it's just easier. There have been proposals to do E2EE on Mastodon, and there's even a branch where they implemented Signal's protocol, but it's too hard to have a cross platform experience with the preferred UX unless users control their keys directly, which users on Mastodon don't. 
 makes sense. thanks! 
 Mastodon is all about giving instance admins god mode over their fiefdom. 
 As opposed to one single entity like X. 
 I think nostr DMs meta is accessible but not the note's body. 
 Wild 🤯 
 Nostr only 🫡 
 https://media.tenor.com/WB0asE2__fAAAAAC/the-book-of-boba-fett-this-is-the-way.gif 
 Is the NOSTR DM private? 
 The metadata is not 
 And they kill people with that shit 
 😂 
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 NIP-104 fixes all of this. 
 Devs keep pushing through. That’s great 
 Yes. 
 Can you prove it? 
 I just told someone that you were an asshole. Please tell me who. 
 😂😂😂😂😂😂 
 The only person you dm’ed recently was 

npub1ktt8phjnkfmfrsxrgqpztdjuxk3x6psf80xyray0l3c7pyrln49qhkyhz0

I guess he was the one

but way to welcome noobs to NOSTR. Well done. 👍🏻 
 I did DM him, but that wasn't the person. He was my decoy 😂 I told the person via NIP-17 🥹 You won't know who since it was gift wrapped. 
 lol 
 And we thought NIP-04 was bad! What a shit show. 😂  
 what is the appeal of bluesky at this point, honestly, besides the logo? 
 Decentralized in name only social media alternative to Twitter. 
 Before it launched it seemed to have promise but somehow it derailed so quickly. Welp, we have nostr 
 It isn't clear to me what they're even trying to be at this point. 
 Booooooooo 
 Lol, the messages are not even e2e encrypted? Dafuq. 
Glad I'm on the best protocol #nostr 
 Assume everything is readable.

Fund privacy tools.

Keychat fixes this *


#privacy #keychat

*hopefully 
 SimpleX is better 
 Terrible 
 Hold up... "account takedown"? xD Eh... I sense they have a flaw in their system. If that's possible it will be used illegitimately at some point. 
 they have a platform that empowers Karen's and feds. 

 
 This is insane, I can’t fathom why anyone would build a new method of social media without encrypted DMs 
 Jack was involved so what do you expect? 
 The sheep like apps like this one 
 while nostriches figured out #NosTorObot :-)  
 you know admins in there looking at your dick pics  
 Are nostr’s private? 
 And how do private messages work on #nostr? 
 there's different implementations of private messages, but no one except you can read your DMs unless you leak your private key.

check out this talk for more details

https://youtu.be/PWKd9aoZ-Cg 
 What an absolute mess. BlueSky and Mastodon are just as bad as Web3 POS.

If you give them an inch they’ll take a mile. Fuck the fishbowls. 
 soon all centralised platforms will be sharing everything with the #Panopticon; see #chatControl.

that‘s why we need the #nostr ecosystem to flourish!  

#BUIDL 💜🧡 #freedomtech 
 Nostr DMs too 
 no one can read your nostr dms unless you leak your private key 
 Still not private, relays can se who you talk with, no metadata protection, no nothing 
 Use clients utilizing the newer DM spec. 
 That’s still way better than what Bluesky has. Use @keychat or secret messages in @0xchat for best privacy. 🤙 
 yes  
 Lame 
 "Rare" cases.... like "Rare" in video game terms probably? Not so low it's legendary but not so common it's grey. 
 you know they're gonna give feds access to this. possible they already have. 
 Oh my god 
 Encryption? Difficult.

Privacy? Impossible.

🤦‍♂️ 
 BlueSky is worse than Twitter. 
 Velvet gloved totalitarianism.
How did bluesky become this way? 
 1. What 
 Smells like deployed capital. 
 Wow color me surprised another surveillance tool founded by  @jack 
 This is why I dislike the fediverse apps, I understand they are useful but still they have a single point of failure which is the person(s) Hosting the services. #GrowNostr 
 Rare my ass. 
 When you play left wing games win left wing prizes. 😂 
 Really bad trade off for the users.

But to be honest, using social media DMs for not-so-trivial things that could potentially become public is like sticking your naked ass out the window of a moving bus.  
 Is NOSTR DMs private? 
 That's why I couldn't find one of U guys over there 😅