It's a predicament. Encryption here would be nice but I also like the idea of #ActivityPub being for social media and #matrix being for social networking. The different levels of privacy kinda push us towards that distinction, which I think is valuable in thinking about purpose and moderation. But of course having one ID would be awesome too.

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@wjmaggos it makes me think this is an implication of the engineering decisions to build ActivityPub around instances instead of users.

But yeah, broadcast system versus direct connection system.

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