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> You seem to be intent on wanting people to just trust that you'll never sell the business and all the communication history, for confusing reasons I think th
by asim 3y ago
> You seem to be intent on wanting people to just trust that you'll never sell the business and all the communication history, for confusing reasons
I think the words "just trust" here are not right. No I don't want people to "just" trust me because I wouldn't "just" trust someone else. I think the E2E thing is important but we already have platforms that facilitate this really well. If it's technically feasible to do in a way that doesn't slow product development, sure we'd do it, but if it's going to take me months on end and it will largely hinder a lot of what we're trying to build feature wise, then it's not really worth it. I think where pure privacy on that level is important to people they really should pick signal or similar. For me, I think what's more important is, can I trust the people running this platform to host that infrastructure well, to continue to put the community first and to drive maybe an alternative path that a lot of people are about e.g self host the data part. Self hosting comes up a lot but in the context of "I want to host the whole thing", what if it was just, where the data lives. At the same time, we're really thinking consumer first and no consumer wants to host anything, they're quite happy using existing services and E2E is not the first thing they think about, it's the frictionless communication or the features of the service. In the case where the consumer really cares about E2E its because they're doing something they don't want anyone to know about. Saying all this, look if I'm putting my personal details into it, or family photos, etc. I want to know no one is going to see or touch that, but maybe it's as basic as we use AES-256 on the client side and a randomly generated secret, or we just delete the data after 30 days and that's the policy.
I think there are services that really focused heavily on E2E but their goal was purely communication whereas we're sort of pushing towards doing more around community coordination.