In a group context, given that the public context lives forever for anyone who joins to peruse,¹ I fully agree. However, I still think E2EE for DMs on the platform is very important. Same thing here; I'm sure you've occasionally seen me making the case the Fedi's closest equivalent is public blogs and that people's perception of things like blocking needs to reflect that (rather than what it means on silos)... but "private" messages aren't native to the blog model and are currently implemented quite poorly/publicly, so I've been following Soatok's work to encrypt them with a lot of interest.
re: @Misofist@girlcock.club
¹ It would make a bit more sense for IRC/XMPP-style ephemeral chat, except that both ecosystems there have bolted on loggers, archives, and other extensions to keep the messages around anyway.
EDIT: Hah, the very next post in my feed after I sent this was Soatok addressing group E2EE: https://furry.engineer/users/soatok/statuses/116070028537427556 The ubiquity argument isn't without merit, yeah, but it's still a "would be nice" level rather than a "crucial" level. Same reason I don't agree with his categorical dismissal of XMPP as a platform.
re: @Misofist@girlcock.club
¹ It would make a bit more sense for IRC/XMPP-style ephemeral chat, except that both ecosystems there have bolted on loggers, archives, and other extensions to keep the messages around anyway.
EDIT: Hah, the very next post in my feed after I sent this was Soatok addressing group E2EE: https://furry.engineer/users/soatok/statuses/116070028537427556 The ubiquity argument isn't without merit, yeah, but it's still a "would be nice" level rather than a "crucial" level. Same reason I don't agree with his categorical dismissal of XMPP as a platform.