Ben Pate 🤘🏻 (npub17gq…8hhz)
The question with E2EE & SNS quickly becomes: How do we deploy this at scale, without breaking moderation, without confusing users, & without inviting legal or security failure?
It's why many people say: keep the public social layer unencrypted & use purpose built tools like Signal for private conversations.
Also, metadata, note that E2EE doesn’t stop the network from seeing who talks to who, when, or how often, so privacy is leaky even if message content is encrypted.
Rusty Shackleford
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2026-04-14 16:28:29 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…fz5r
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