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ok peeps, someone more familiar with #mastodon please weigh in here. if true, this is actually terrifying and people REALLY need to understand this before picking their instance and before posting anything in a "private" message.
@ryancrawcour let me clairify here!
Moderators not admins cannot read any private or DMs from the admin/mod interface. But like with every sever it would be possible to ‘login’ on the database and lookup that data manually but trust me, this would be a pain.. and I doubt any server admin would do this! If so please move instances
Here on mstdn there are only 2 people who access to the database, that’s me and a backup person just in case something happens to me. But your DM’s are SAFE!
@stux@mstdn.social@ryancrawcour DMs on Mastodon are NOT encrypted! We are working on such a thing for in the future :)
If you want to chat E2E encrypted I would suggest a private conversation in #Matrix for example!
@stux thanks! i have nothing on any social media app that is really "private". so i am good. i am just stunned at how easy it is to access the contents of DMs etc.
guess it's just a good reminder to be wary of what instance you're on and who the admins of that instance are.
@ryancrawcour Ah I see! Maybe Matrix would be a better fit? 
We have an instance running on :https://chat.mstdn.social/ more info and even Tor: https://mstdn.social/about/more#matrix