Private posts is planned, but it’s not trivial. Mastodon can’t exactly brag about their nonintuitive technically just not broadcasted posts, where multiple implementations keep making private messages publicly discoverable due to bugs.
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airportline@lemmy.zip 1 week agoThe tradeoffs Bluesky made to achieve that means that Bluesky doesn’t have private posts. In fact, Bluesky doesn’t have private blocks.
Natanael@infosec.pub 1 week ago
j0j0@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What kind of implementations do you mean? The last time I heard of such a thing (a few years ago), it was fixed within a few hours, and was on a dev instance
Natanael@infosec.pub 6 days ago
Currently Lemmy is leaking likes via the API even if they only should be available to the user’s host and community host server
General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Federation requires openness and that goes badly with secrecy. You can argue that one has to trust instance owners anyway, but knowing the users and not just the tallies makes uncovering manipulation easier.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I do enjoy how that couch fucking fascist cunt is the most blocked person.