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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

How about private messages which are also unencrypted?

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

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

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