Just putting this out there--
I want to see an open source, surveillance-proof social media tool that supports private posting, i.e. to friends only. Others I know want this too.
Would anyone be interested in helping design this product? I'd love to see a collaborative discussion for it.
I'm especially interested in input from human rights activists worldwide, to learn which features are needed or wanted by them or others on the ground.
#privacy #fediverse #ProductDesign #HumanRights
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Yeah this brings up one of the axes I like to grind that #Mastodon actively spreads content throughout the system even to people the author does not intend, relying on good faith to not display it. Users really need to know that this system does not do much to protect privacy securely.
Anyway, I would suggest that you go down the road of encryption. You can broadcast and encrypted message all throughout distributed systems even though only the intended readers will be able to decrypt it, with a good UI handling all of the technicalities of course.
That is, as long as you are okay with it being observable that the speaker has spoken.
I just really wish that sort of functionality had been built into #fediverse
