Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoThe 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first!www.androidpolice.comexternal-linkmessage-square148fedilinkarrow-up1678arrow-down113cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1665arrow-down1external-linkThe 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first!www.androidpolice.comBlaze@discuss.tchncs.de to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square148fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareTORFdot0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·11 months agoYour 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 Singer@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 months agoHow about private messages which are also unencrypted?
minus-squareTORFdot0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoActivityPub 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 Singer@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThat’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.