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We've received a few queries about Direct Messages (DMs) on Mastodon. Let's try to clear a few things up.

On Twitter, DMs are stored unencrypted on Twitter's infrastructure.

DMs sent to/from users on Mastodon.ie are stored unencrypted on our infrastructure — and in the case of a DM sent to a user on another instance — on that infrastructure too. This is similar to Twitter, but an important differentiation to make.

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