I've been thinking a lot lately about #ActivityPub. Mostly because I love #federation, but also because I'm a geek and love #crypto(graphy).
I wonder how hard it would be to build a super simple #Mastodon-like but fully encrypted setup. Interoperable of course, but with e2e encryption of messages.
Given the existing public key support ... I have a model that works in my head. Just need time to write it up. (Might pave the way for encrypted DMs, too ...)
@ericmann I think that is sort of using the wrong tool for the job.
ActivityPub really includes engineering decisions that put instances, not users, at the heart of its design, so e2e encryption would be something like bolt on at the application level, when it should be part of the deeper structure.
Other platforms do that better, so let's just use those other platforms instead.
@Hyolobrika Yes! And it has some really interesting ideas.
