[tptacek]

The most irresponsible thing you can do is make a security promise you can't keep. Mastadon's usage is overwhelmingly browser-based; achieving reliably end-to-end security between users of browser-based apps remains an open problem. Taking a short step back from that: if you're going to try to give people secure messaging, you should have that goal from the start. Matrix is a good case study in what happens when you don't do this.

You can still high-horse Mastodon: just tell them they shouldn't have private messaging at all. That seems like a reasonable take.

[xypage]

Since matrix is an open standard and everything would it be possible to build a matrix client into mastodon? That would be really interesting, if it became a plug and play messaging client for open source projects that include some sort of DMs.