Micah LeeYou know instance admins can read your direct messages in the fediverse? Twitter and Facebook also can - and sometimes do - read your private messages, and they have infrastructure to comply with law enforcement requests. I'd love to see some end-to-end encryption built into Mastodon clients.
Constance Variable@micahflee just use matrix / xmpp.
Rysiekúr (old account)@lambadalambda @micahflee the solution here is not to use a different tool, but to fix the tool we're using. There is no reason why #Mastodon couldn't support #e2e #encryption in private messages.
@rysiek @micahflee SUre, but why? There are already several mature open source federated e2e encrypted chat systems available. Both xmpp and matrix could even be easily integrated into the existing user@instance id scheme. They have mobile clients, web clients, desktop clients...
It's neat to encrypt a tweet and send it to someone, but it just seems like the wrong tool for the job.
It's neat to encrypt a tweet and send it to someone, but it just seems like the wrong tool for the job.
@lambadalambda @micahflee but that's the tool people are using. I use XMPP+OTR, e-mail+PGP, Signal, etc., but if somebody is not as tech-savvy but is already here, I don't see why they should not have the option of encrypting private messages.
Or, put a bit differently: https://mastodon.social/media/N9MHhHNBYckrKdO8bPc
Lieselotte ❤️🔥❤️@lambadalambda @micahflee @rysiek Not completely. Riseup rolled out a system a few weeks ago that encrypts all emails with your login passwords. So if they have to hand out data, it will be encrypted data. https://0xacab.org/riseuplabs/trees
Philosophically: The same thing. Granted.
Practically: Huge difference if you ask me.