Searching for a federated communications software with closed groups.
Hey,
I just talked to an activist friend and he told me about the struggles to find the right communications software for his activist group.
He said that no software is really end to end encrypted for large group chats and calls. (Is that true?)
So he is searching for something instead where the metadata is hidden and which is federated.
He was asking me if #Mastodon was the right thing, but Mastodon doesn't have groups yet. (When?)
So I suggested #Lemmy, but Lemmy doesn't have hidden/closed communities, right?
So what else is there?
#AskFedi #FollowerPower #Question #Fediverse #federated #encryption #MetaData #help
With a group like that, I wonder if federation really brings them advantages.
With a closed group a central server might be just fine.
Anyway, yeah, ActivityPub was pretty much built with the idea that everything published through it would be effectively public, so anything built on top of ActivityPub would share that feature by default. This includes Mastodon, Lemmy, and all of the other Fediverse interfaces.
It was a design decision of ActivityPub.
