• solrize@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Of course you can PM your email address to someone. It’s not encrypted but it’s not exactly public in the sense that spammers can see it.

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      6 months ago

      I was under the impression it wasn’t even truly private, nevermind encrypted. Not actually sure how it works though

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        6 months ago

        It’s somewhat private. Like when you enter your email address to make a Lemmy account, the address is stored on the server. The admins can see it and it could potentially escape in a server breach, but it is not intentionally made public. So most of us don’t worry. The interest in encrypting pm’s is that they can potentially be more sensitive than email addresses.