@darius
I think it's "recourse" vs "trust"
if I know that a service provider is violating my privacy, I can take legal action!
On the other hand, if a hobbyist violated my privacy and use the excuse "this server has no privacy" as a defence, there is really nothing I can do.

@darius not exactly the same, Darius.
Your email server and the recipient's server are run by an admin that's usually governed by a confidentiality agreement and can lose their job if they viewed or shares a private email.
Besides the OG instances and the few company ones, most people have Mastodon accounts on servers run by hobbyists, no confidentiality, no SOPs

@Gargron @biz
This is great, Eugen!