> would that keep a rogue server admin from accessing sensitive user data? There are no servers, it is peer to peer. The pubs are just easy to connect to to b

> would that keep a rogue server admin from accessing sensitive user data? There are no servers, it is peer to peer. The pubs are just easy to connect to to bootstrap new users into the social network and have been mostly closed off now that it has become more popular to avoid bad actors from abusing that easy way in. You can bootstrap on a LAN / WAN without pubs.