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"Posts on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted." Neither are email messages or SMS.
maybe there should be a warning message on those too
That’s what #Signal is for.
I will say that some of the smartest people working on Mastodon and the fediverse right now are working on this very problem, and I'm pretty excited to see it become part of the stack.
I use Fediverse direct (mentioned only) messages for authentication in Owncast. Having these messages e2e encrypted would be a huge plus for this particular case. How do I get involved with this on a Fediverse (not Mastodon) level? At least I'm hoping it's not Mastodon only thing.
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@gabek check with @hallam ! He's got some great work going.
should I start manually encrypting all my posts? People like reading line noise right?
Why do you want to encrypt posts? They are meant to be publicly available. DMs are not e2eed on Mastodon too (at least it is the case on the server which I have chosen and it is written in the ToS). But I don't find it bad anyway.
That is a feature not a bug, right? I think there are better tools for privacy communication. But global communities should be open (non-encrypted) by default to encourage discovery.
We should all be using PGP for e-mail.
I don't care about sending a DM in the clear, but the UI leads to embarrassing errors. For example if you mention someone in a DM now they're brought into the DM. Also it should be a distinct button not part of a list. More than once I've clicked on the wrong option with horrible results. I think there needs to be better segregation of the entire function.
I'm surprised, with all the advances in techniques and knowledge we have, and all those chat applications, that email remains basically unchanged since the times of RFC821/822 (both of 1982 vintage).

Heck, most of the people I work with weren't even born when these two RFC were written!
People want e2ee on micro-blogs?
someone ELI5 why I would need to encrypt my post to a public forum?
@cswalker21 if you're sending a direct message to another person that you don't want others to read.
ooooooh. Gotcha. OK, thanks. I didn’t realize one could do that, 😂
Not yet.

I have the technlogy.
They are if you embrace secrets
@mattl The oxcart has a broken wheel.
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Regarding #Email, they are end-to-end encrypted if the email application supports #SMIME.

As you know, this isn't commonplace because of the rise of centralized emails servers that simply won't allow said functionality due to its incompatibility with their #SurveillanceCapitalism based business models.

Luckily, more email is happening via Apple Mail, courtesy of #iOS, which actually fully supports S/MIME for digitally signing and/or encrypting emails.