Vietnamese grad student, free software enthusiast and hydro homie

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  • if I sent you a private message, is that viewable in plain text by not just the instance owner we’re both on

    Yes.

    other federated instances too?

    Not by design, but instances can misbehave.

    private messaging over AP

    Private is misleading here: for messaging to be private, no third party should be able to read the messages. In practice, this usually requires end-to-end encryption.