@sod @pimoore @pratik Thanks for clarifying. I don't know much about the topic and had a couple of questions.

1) On Twitter, can other people besides people that work at Twitter potentially read your DMs? 2) If for example, someone started a game dev Mastodon server and then Facebook and Twitter imploded on the same day and the game dev community flocked to Mastodon and their server had most of the game industry using it. Wouldn't that open up possibilities for abuse with them being able to read everyone's DMs? They could sell people's conversations to companies that want to spy on their employees. On the other hand so could Twitter, but is that different since Twitter is a company and the person running the game dev Mastadon server is just a person?