Holos Social@HolosSocial@mastodon.social: @silverpill<br>The relay is a tunnel, not a middleman. It cannot read or alter the content. And with E2EE DMs, even direct messages are only readable on the device.<br>@jandi @jupiter_rowland

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silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-04-04 05:17:02)
@jandi @HolosSocial @jupiter_rowland In simple terms: if you don't attach your own domain name to an account, there is no portability, and that's not different from mastodon.social.
If you use your own domain, you are more independent, but you'd probably be better off hosting a full fediverse instance yourself, instead of relying on a middleman to transfer messages. There are many lightweight alternatives to Mastodon.
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Holos Social@HolosSocial@mastodon.social (2026-04-04 05:42:26)
@silverpill
The relay is a tunnel, not a middleman. It cannot read or alter the content. And with E2EE DMs, even direct messages are only readable on the device.
@jandi @jupiter_rowland


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silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-04-04 06:45:06)
@HolosSocial It is a middleman, otherwise you wouldn't be posting about the server downtime.

It can read and alter content, impersonate users and do everything else a regular ActivityPub server can do, for reasons stated earlier (even if it currently doesn't do that).

@jandi @jupiter_rowland