A couple of users on the genzedong matrix chat expressed concern over Lemmygrad’s lack of privacy policy. Lemmy already supports setting legal information in the site admin settings (although it’s hard to find the legal page if you don’t already know about it since there are no links to there).
It could also be worth letting admins on other instances know about this feature, as I’m sure many of them would want to add privacy policies to their instances as well.
That’s fair, I guess I was thinking about federation in terms of communities when I wrote that. Federated in the grander context just means “these severs communicate with each other.”
I didn’t want someone to misconstrue what DM federation means, because I could see someone thinking it means their DMs are “synced” to other instances outside of the two instances communicating.
Regardless! Your last point is the most important. Treat systems you communicate with as suspect, even if they seem trustworthy.