Bob MottramMastodon proposes another non-private privacy scheme. I don't think this leads anywhere good, other than users ending up confused and sometimes doxed. Times are tough, and fake privacy may really put some people in danger. Mastodon doesn't need to do all the things, and most people are already using good enough private chat systems which genuinely implement public key encryption. Just add a way of linking to that.
Eugen Rochko@bob Have you read this https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/4208 before writing this message?
Paul Free (14 Ⓐ, europe)@Gargron @bob
what's the reason for not using #xmpp?
why to do it:
- encrypted conversation possilbe
- it is used on other plattforms, so you easly could speak to each other (it's already used by nextcloud, and friendica)
- ppl can join other chat channels
(MOC, IRC, matrix....)
- it is a wide spread standart, so more likly that other plattforms will follow using it as a chat system
that's how it looks in nextcloud: https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/ojsxc
@paulfree14 @gargron Integrating xmpp might be one way to go. The other would be to implement something like Hubzilla's server based privacy. Neither would be ideal since keys would still reside on the server, but it's one variety of threat model.
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muppeth@bob @paulfree14 @Gargron @Melezh would rather see matrix integration. Matrix has better room discovery which leads to having boost in amount of users and thus community around the project. I've seen it happening to numerous irc/xmpp rooms that once they were bridged to matrix the number of users sky rocket.