This is very welcome, and I referenced it in my recent article on Fediverse progress: “Decentralized social media platform Mastodon plans on adopting its own end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for private messages.
Mastodon announced the upcoming feature in a blog post about receiving €614,000 ($724,000) from the Sovereign Tech Fund, an effort backed by the German government to support open-source software. "
I do wonder if or how this could work in concert with other open E2EE messaging, I’m thinking of #DeltaChat or #Matrix protocols or Dan new Sup messaging effort.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/mastodon-plans-end-to-end-encryption-for-private-messages