[–] [S] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

I was more looking for social media rather than a private cloud image storage, I'll probably still go ahead with using Pixelfed. I was just hoping it wouldn't be possible for the host, to take everyone's private photos and dump them online if they wanted to.

I guess Instagrams level of privacy would be similar and employees at Meta would be able to look at people's private photos too.

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    I just closed my Instagram account and was about to start uploading my photos to a private account on Pixelfed.

    I was just wandering if the images I upload are stored encrypted or if everything is stored as is on the server.

    I couldn't see any mention of it, so I assume an instance owner could just go through everyone's photos on the server even if they're marked as private.

    I tried looking through the source code to see if I could answer the question myself, but nothing is jumping out at me.

    So hopefully someone with more knowledge than me can answer this question for me, thanks!