This clearly demonstrates the meaning of real ownership of our accounts and the difference bewteen #Nostr and #Mastodon.
Do you have a private key for your account? Are you the only one who owns the key? Then the account is yours. Otherwise it can belongs to someone else - this is the case of Mastodon and other social media accounts.
If you have only the username/password, then the service provider is the person who can publish content on behalf of you, or do whatever they want with your account. They are also responsible for protecting your identity. But do they their best for protecting you? Can you trust them?
Similarities with custodial and non-custodial #wallets are not accidental.
#privacy #socialmedia #ownership #crypto #keys