this post was submitted on 17 Feb 2024
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[โ€“] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Given that the admin of any instance with a single approved follower can see the contents of the community, this idea feels like placebo privacy. The false sense of privacy could be counterproductive.

The only way I can think to federate with something resembling true privacy would be to use PGP or similar. Encrypt the data with the user's private key, send it to and store it on remote instances encrypted ,and decrypted in JS on the user's computer. That would require users to mange private keys which they would no doubt lose, and be a lot of work for a pretty niche feature.

[โ€“] modulus@lemmy.ml -1 points 9 months ago

I can think of alternatives. For example, the server could keep the user's private key, encrypted with a passphrase that the user must have. So key loss wouldn't be an issue. (Yes, passphrase loss might, but there are lots of ways to keep those safely already, compared to key material which is difficult to handle.)