I am not the typical user crying about privacy. I have a policy that if I want something to be private I do not share it on an international network. As an Instances Admin I do take keeping the information given during registration private seriously. The only information I ask for though is a valid email for verification to slow down spam account registration and I do not give out anyone's email. Though I am not referring to information given to signup for a service. I am talking about posts and comments made on Social Media. If you want it private, do not share it. It does not matter if it was sent private to only one person or a small group. Screen shots are a real thing. Anyone in your group can decided to share it. Now of course I do not endorse such behavior and would ban a user from my instance for doing such a thing if it was brought to my attention.

With that said. I did something today I rarely do. In fact I have only done it once before on Fedi and it was because the individual was an unabashed racist. I actually blocked my second user on Fedi. Because they openly admitted in a post that they shared content from a DM. DM or PM it is still private to me. Now it was not a DM from me. I have very few DMs and I like to keep it that way. But anyone that is going to be so dishonorable as to share what was said in private between another user has no place on my friends list. No, I did not tell them or warn them. I just took their behavior as a recommendation to remove them from my circle. There is no way I will abide such behavior. If they had been a member of my instance, I would have banned them.

Unus Nemo

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