oh also since it's literally always a point of contention every time there's an influx of new users 👇🏻
moderators and admins can read your chatsthe purpose of this is so that in the event somebody is breaking a rule privately we can enforce it and deal with those users. please also be advised that admins and moderators on the other 29k instances poast is aware of and federates with can also read your messages if you sent something to one of their users (only your messages to that user).
as you should always be doing on any online platform, please approach chats with caution and do not give away private information over chat. if you wish to do that there are many end-to-end encrypted solutions such as the Poast Matrix