feld@feld@friedcheese.us: @silverpill @phnt @benpate harder to target users on your own homeserver when you don't have a public timeline where you can spy on your users to pick a victim based on their public posts/profiles.<br><br>most of the activity on Matrix is private or at least in group chats. The fediverse is public by default.

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silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-04-15 01:34:54)
@feld @phnt @benpate It doesn't seem to be an issue in the Matrix ecosystem where people often self host web clients.
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feld@feld@friedcheese.us (2026-04-15 01:37:36)
@silverpill @phnt @benpate harder to target users on your own homeserver when you don't have a public timeline where you can spy on your users to pick a victim based on their public posts/profiles.

most of the activity on Matrix is private or at least in group chats. The fediverse is public by default.


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silverpill@silverpill@mitra.social (2026-04-15 02:23:14)
@feld @phnt @benpate Fair point. I usually imagine a network of small instances where spying admins are not a problem, but Mastodon is a different world.