Damus
Ben Arc · 146w
Social media that pretends to be conversational, but messages are permanent, relies on surveillance capitalism for server costs, and empowers obnoxious people who don't care about unthoughtful comment...
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Shouldn’t we consider all posts permanent until webs of trust develop in private channels. A new user may have a false sense of security thinking something isn’t permanent. It’s out there, and will be collected if it can be collected.
Sort of presses on a need for private torrents/galaxies/channels so people can distinguish the difference. Public commons vs encrypted webs of trust.
TTLs would be extremely useful! They just don’t protect against surveillance and to some extent permanency.
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rabble · 146w
I agree we need real private messages and groups. I’ve looked at lots of ways to do this and I believe this is most promising. https://p2panda.org/specification/encryption We’ll need to figure out how for clients to store a set of keys for the groups they’re in. We can do it by encrypting...