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    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

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      How about private messages which are also unencrypted?

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        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

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          That’s true, but neither the article nor the discussion are about ActivityPub.

          Both are specifically about Lemmy, and Lemmy does have private messages.