No, it's not
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This seems like backwards reasoning. If you named a new platform after pigeons, which were actually used for transmitting information, you'd get critics saying "It's so archaic, nobody has used pigeons for 80 years!" Birds carrying messages is just as "extinct" of a metaphor as Mastodons are as an animal.
Linked from the README in the repository you linked.
The documentation also includes various guides on horizontal scaling, using pgBouncer etc.
>I don't expect any major changes are needed for compliance, which is why it's been pretty low priority. it's just a matter of getting a document together that better informs admins.
Mastodon has all the features needed for compliance, and does not collect or store any data that's not for its primary purpose.
Can you really say "elephant in the room" in a thread about social media and not mention Mastodon[1]? That's a facebook rival that's not staying mum...
>The average joe expects direct messages to really be private. If they're not, that's bad.
They're not "really private" in Twitter DMs and Facebook Messenger and PMs on phpBB and Discourse forums, they were not "really private" in ICQ, AIM and XMPP (unless you installed the OTR plugin on the last one). E2EE is cool but most private messages on the internet do not use it and they are still called things like "private" and "direct".
Where are you taking this from? You think connecting to your Mastodon server you have an account on somehow broadcasts to the whole network?
Can you tell me how and where you would broadcast your location via Mastodon? There are no geolocation features in Mastodon.
>It needs to be encrypted, too, because it's the reasonable expectation when private messages and followers-only messages exist.
Has anyone attempted to encrypt a message to 64,000 recipients yet? I don't think restricting a message to followers is an applicable model for e2ee. Direct messages yes, I can see the point in that.