#mastondon Friends!
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@scottjenson This is great but it assumes a single device (private key) per account. What if I want to have a phone and a desktop? Whatsapp and Signal both "solve" this by having one main device (the phone) and connected devices that make use of this main device's private key, but in the context of having different applications connected to a fedi account, I'm not sure it would work too well.
@Varpie exactly. This is why I'm treating this topic as something potentially quite difficult. One of the incredible values of the fediverse is that I use multiple clients to manage my account and I'm worried that encryption will make that nearly impossible.
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#mastondon Friends!
There is a TON of improvements we could make to Private Mentions (often called DMs on other platforms) e.g.
* getting them out of the public timeline
* Having a stronger notification tied to the Private Mention tab
* (amount other things)But here is my MAIN question: How critical is it that these message are encrypted? I'm not against encryption! It's just complex and will take time. If we were to make some UX changes as a first pass WITHOUT encryption would you be OK with that (at least for now?)
If you MUST have encryption, that's fine, please do me the favor of replying explaining why you need it.
@scottjenson
> How critical is it that these message are encrypted?If you're going to do DMs at all, it ought to be in the roadmap from day one. A SocialCG taskforce is actively working on E2EE DMs for ActivityPub, using MLS (cc @evan), so you don't need to do it alone.
> If we were to make some UX changes as a first pass WITHOUT encryption
There's never a bad time to improve UX. Making it harder to confuse public and nonpublic posts, for reading and especially for sending, would be great.
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