Want Mastodon/PubActivity in most open source app, whether in note taking app or chat app like telegram or signal.
Composable and Modular design.
@amiya_rbehera I think the privacy issues around Mastodon/AP would really limit where it can be practically applied
@volkris Yes, but many apps still can have Mastodon where privacy like end-to-end encryption is not required. Technology like decentralized SGX (Integritee Network, Phala Network) can further enhance the privacy of PubActivity, where the server is no longer in full control of the system Admin.
@amiya_rbehera but that's exactly part of the problem that I'm trying to point out, that mastodon is based on protocols that are inherently opposed to things like end to end encryption.
ActivityPub is at its core kind of opposed to any of those privacy protecting features. And that's a big problem!
@volkris Not really, PubActivity doesn't oppose end-to-end encryption. It's just a protocol for Interoperability, just like email (e.g. Protonmail has end-to-end encrypted system)
@amiya_rbehera so I'd say, yeah because E2E encryption flourished so well on email.
But that encryption on AP is one level worse? Because now I guess we are picturing public feeds full of gobbledy cook with people publicly publishing undecipherable crud, just filling the whole experience with unreadable crap.
This is why that doesn't work.
@amiya_rbehera you say AP has public feeds but the problem is that a lot of people don't realize that it doesn't have anything else, it doesn't have private feeds.
I'm a huge critic of that.
@volkris Yes, that is what modular and composable apps can solve.
@amiya_rbehera apps can't solve the problem if the underlying infrastructure isn't compatible.
@volkris Yes, PubActivity has public feeds, so end-to-end encryption of feeds is not required. It's not a security breach but a feature.