BlazetoFediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish·9 months agocross-posted to: android@lemdro.idThe 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first!(www.androidpolice.com)external-linkarrow-up1682arrow-down113message-square161fedilink
arrow-up1669arrow-down1external-linkThe 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first!(www.androidpolice.com)BlazetoFediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish·9 months agocross-posted to: android@lemdro.idmessage-square161fedilink
minus-squareTORFdot0Englisharrow-up7arrow-down1·9 months agolinkfedilinkYour posts are all public and discoverable by web crawlers even if your instance didn’t federate at all. That’s kind of the point of activityPUB
minus-squareSquare SingerEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down0·9 months agoedit-29 months agolinkfedilinkHow about private messages which are also unencrypted?
minus-squareTORFdot0Englisharrow-up1arrow-down0·9 months agolinkfedilinkActivityPub does not have support for private messages. Services that try to shoehorn a direct message as “private” are misusing the protocol. You could configure client-side encryption but thats outside the scope of ActivityPub
minus-squareSquare SingerEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down0·9 months agolinkfedilinkThat’s true, but neither the article nor the discussion are about ActivityPub. Both are specifically about Lemmy, and Lemmy does have private messages.
Your posts are all public and discoverable by web crawlers even if your instance didn’t federate at all. That’s kind of the point of activityPUB
How about private messages which are also unencrypted?
ActivityPub does not have support for private messages. Services that try to shoehorn a direct message as “private” are misusing the protocol. You could configure client-side encryption but thats outside the scope of ActivityPub
That’s true, but neither the article nor the discussion are about ActivityPub.
Both are specifically about Lemmy, and Lemmy does have private messages.