This doesn’t really affect me as I’m on a single user instance, but I know lots of admins have been asking for it for a while:
There’s finally a way to email announcements to users of your instance: (merged and available on nightly, no idea when it’ll be merged to a release)
This can’t seem to find a way to unsubscribe from these as an end user.
Am I blind, or has that been overlooked?
@michael I didn't see any changes in any of the files that would add the option to opt-out at profile settings/preferences/notifications where email notification options are
I could have overlooked it in the PR, also.
@michael there is no option to opt out; this is intended to be seldom used, for very specific things like security breach notification or server closure notification
@ClearlyClaire thanks for the feedback.
I think the intention might be there, but there is no knowing how admins will use it. If I was admin of a multi user instance I’d probably use it for general maintenance notifications etc, given that announcements are otherwise all but invisible in most apps.
IMO to allow compliance with GDPR and various other regulations (as well as many email providers’ policies) there really should be a way to unsubscribe. (Possibly with a way to override that for legally required notifications, if you feel that’s needed?)
@michael we added something to inform admins about the lack of user opt-out and tell them to not abuse this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34411
@ClearlyClaire better than nothing, but why not add an opt out?
@michael because the point of the feature is to have a way for admins to have a near-guaranteed way to reach the users for stuff like shutdown announcement or private data breach disclosure