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Appreciate the comment. As mentioned in some comments we will continue to push the privacy front as far as possible, until then we've tried to be clear about co
by jstrafy 5y ago
Appreciate the comment. As mentioned in some comments we will continue to push the privacy front as far as possible, until then we've tried to be clear about communicating where we are with that (and clear about what we're not yet doing privacy wise).
1. The vast majority of our privacy is in product experience. Sharing with less people instead of everyone, making reactions and comments only visible between mutual contacts.
2. Names, Posts, comments and replies are encrypted at rest.
3. We sync your phonebook for contact discovery and don't store it on our servers. Therefore it is not linked to your identity. This is a hard problem to solve as Signal wrote in this blog post (https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/ https://signal.org/blog/contact-discovery/)
That said, privacy is a super important issue and external testing and open-sourcing is something that we desire to do. So thanks for the checker here!
- 3np 5y agoJust chiming in that until it’s fully open-sourced (or at the very least source-available with a license allowing me to build, modify, and run it myself), this is entirely uninteresting as an alternative. We are many that had trust broken one too many times. IMO encryption/privacy means nothing if I can’t ensure it’s what it says myself. Ability to self-build is the only way to make that happen.
- jstrafy 5y agoDefinitely get where you're coming from here - have noted.