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A few questions from a newbie


!Friendica Support

1. What's the security level/situation on Friendica? I remember with Mastodon people were being clear that messages weren't end-to-end encrypted, that your instance admin could read them. Is the same true with Friendica, messages and private posts?
This is not a criticism; Fediverse sites run by people setting up their servers works differently to centralised stuff. Just wanting to understand.

2. I see lots of mentions of the Bluesky connector, but generally without details. I've found fed.brid.gy/ that appears to do the link - is stuff like that what's meant, or is there another more official/advanced/whatever conector?

3. Lastly, someone I don't know has commented on a public post of mine, as they are entirely entitled to do! But now they appear in my 'Everyone' feed, which feels a bit weird. Can I control my Everyone feed?

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@Brian S. @Friendica Support @Tobias
Rolling these together rather than replying separately saying the same thing 😄

1. TBH, the main thing is just knowing the score – there's a load of encrypted messengers available. There'll hopefully come a point where Frendica is enough of how I interact with people that it'd be lovely to not need another thing for Definitely Private chat. But that's a good long way away!

2. So where do I find the connector; how do I make use of it? I did assume Googling, found a bunch of mentions of it, but no links, how to use/connect, whether the instance admin has to have set it up, etc.

3. My followed content scope has defaulted to "Conversations my follows started or commented on", and I've not (yet) changed that.

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2.) The connectors are addons that have to be activated by your nodes admin. If they are activated, then you find them in "Settings -> Social Networks".

3.) Mmh... then I had the wrong idea. With that scope you should not see random peoples postings. What exactly is your 'everyone' stream? The network stream without any filterings/channels applied or something else? Also please check that contact, just to make sure you are not following them by accident.