@Edge First of all, welcome to the #Fediverse !
Just to give some idea…
If it is only to prevent admins from not being able to read everything, then hosting your own instance is your best solution. Regardless, if your post is public then the whole fediverse can still read your post.
To truly prevent anyone from reading your private posts, DMs, etc. you not only have to host your own instance, but you also have to ask your contacts to use your own instance, and of course you become the big brother who can read their accounts.
There were attempts last year of introducing post/comment encryption in Mastodon, I don't know what happened to it. The solution of others is to post an encrypted post -- manually.
Or, you can use #Hubzilla's per post/comment encryption feature, which of course meant you have to use a Hubzilla instance. ;)
Why post/comments are not encrypted in the database for most, if not all, fediverse software/platform? The developers themselves can answer that.
#Pleroma #GNUsocial #Diaspora Hubzilla, #Friendica and #Socialhome have this feature. I highly suggest opening a ticket in Mastodon's project page for this suggestion. Badly needed.
Or maybe there is already one but no one's interested to program it. If you can, code it and submit a PR. :)
No. The federation or fediverse is not Mastodon-exclusive. There are different software / platforms available. This is also not feasible. Blockchain is good and all but not for federation purposes. One success of the fediverse is its easy entry level. We have more than 1,000 instances using different software today, if the fediverse was blockchain-based, we'll only have maybe 10 only and far fewer platforms too. No innovation. No choice. I run my own single-user instance and so many others, I won't be able to with a blockchain-based software.
Also, the fediverse has been around years before blockchain came, and even during the first 2-3 years of it (blockchain), people were against it. The fediverse is already in place by the time Mastodon launched publicly (last year). If I'm not mistaken, the fediverse is 12-15 years old already today.
Is it possible? Yes. There is a software running on top of an existing blockchain (ETH) that is federated via #ActivityPub but it's yet to gain attention beyond those who actually bother to know these things. ;) I can't even recall it without checking my list and I haven't even tried it yet because I'm not willing to spend just to get an account. (You can check my previous posts, I shared information about them.)
And blockchain will actually become a barrier to adoption if you think about it.
Diaspora, Hubzilla, Friendica have "circles" feature. I think also Socialhome (I haven't explored this platform much yet).
Hubzilla and Friendica have Categories feature.
With that said. It doesn't mean Mastodon is lacking or another software or platform is better than the rest. This is the beauty of #FLOSS / #FOSS and the fediverse itself, you have plenty of choices. If you need a particular feature that is not in another, there are public instances available that you can move without losing access to the larger fediverse.
Check out fediverse.party and Wikipedia:Fediverse.
@Alan Avram Shteynberg ☑️
Just to give some idea…
👎 Would prefer proper full encryption and admins not being able to read everything. Big Brother right there.
If it is only to prevent admins from not being able to read everything, then hosting your own instance is your best solution. Regardless, if your post is public then the whole fediverse can still read your post.
To truly prevent anyone from reading your private posts, DMs, etc. you not only have to host your own instance, but you also have to ask your contacts to use your own instance, and of course you become the big brother who can read their accounts.
There were attempts last year of introducing post/comment encryption in Mastodon, I don't know what happened to it. The solution of others is to post an encrypted post -- manually.
Or, you can use #Hubzilla's per post/comment encryption feature, which of course meant you have to use a Hubzilla instance. ;)
Why post/comments are not encrypted in the database for most, if not all, fediverse software/platform? The developers themselves can answer that.
👎 Federated timeline is missing a pause feature (unless I'm missing it) because it's hard to keep up with. A user refresh would be more useful.
#Pleroma #GNUsocial #Diaspora Hubzilla, #Friendica and #Socialhome have this feature. I highly suggest opening a ticket in Mastodon's project page for this suggestion. Badly needed.
Or maybe there is already one but no one's interested to program it. If you can, code it and submit a PR. :)
👎 Proper full integration between the instances would be far better - if that meant using a distributed database like a block-chain - that would be far better.
No. The federation or fediverse is not Mastodon-exclusive. There are different software / platforms available. This is also not feasible. Blockchain is good and all but not for federation purposes. One success of the fediverse is its easy entry level. We have more than 1,000 instances using different software today, if the fediverse was blockchain-based, we'll only have maybe 10 only and far fewer platforms too. No innovation. No choice. I run my own single-user instance and so many others, I won't be able to with a blockchain-based software.
Also, the fediverse has been around years before blockchain came, and even during the first 2-3 years of it (blockchain), people were against it. The fediverse is already in place by the time Mastodon launched publicly (last year). If I'm not mistaken, the fediverse is 12-15 years old already today.
Is it possible? Yes. There is a software running on top of an existing blockchain (ETH) that is federated via #ActivityPub but it's yet to gain attention beyond those who actually bother to know these things. ;) I can't even recall it without checking my list and I haven't even tried it yet because I'm not willing to spend just to get an account. (You can check my previous posts, I shared information about them.)
And blockchain will actually become a barrier to adoption if you think about it.
👎 Also being able to categorise toots and having different 'circles' (to use a Google term) would be useful. So for example, my C64 toots could be shared with people that have that interest, otherwise you end up muting people that may occasionally say something you're interested in.
Diaspora, Hubzilla, Friendica have "circles" feature. I think also Socialhome (I haven't explored this platform much yet).
Hubzilla and Friendica have Categories feature.
With that said. It doesn't mean Mastodon is lacking or another software or platform is better than the rest. This is the beauty of #FLOSS / #FOSS and the fediverse itself, you have plenty of choices. If you need a particular feature that is not in another, there are public instances available that you can move without losing access to the larger fediverse.
Check out fediverse.party and Wikipedia:Fediverse.
@Alan Avram Shteynberg ☑️
