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What's wrong with requiring an account to view some content? Does everything need to be 100% public? What if I want to post somewhat private thoughts or image
by TZubiri 2y ago
What's wrong with requiring an account to view some content?
Does everything need to be 100% public?
What if I want to post somewhat private thoughts or images and restrict the content in some manner?
- jazzyjackson 2y agoAT proto is a cleartext protocol, hiding content is a matter of clients respecting a flag, a false sense of privacy. If you want to restrict the audience of a post, you should post it encrypted and send keys to intended recipients
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoIs it cryptographically possible to give different keys to everyone so they can't be shared? Or only if you re-encrypt the content for every key you hand out?
- IshKebab 2y agoPublicly accessible content should be accessible without an account. The only reason they ask for an account is to push you to sign up, which is just annoying. Imagine if Wikipedia asked you to log in before you could read anything. It makes some sense for something like Facebook which is more or less private by default (you couldn't see much without an account anyway), but not for X or Bluesky where it's all public.