CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@zzt @Tamtam @aral There are some people working on adding E2EE to Mastodon, but, as far as I read about it, it will be like having Signal but decentralised and with better UX but lacking voice/video calls (so, Mastodon but your instance owner can't read your private messages and you don't need to verify codes or qr codes like Signal).

They are taking their time because once deployed it will be hard to fix things. I know that from experience developing megajs!!! I wish they didn't use RSA — non-standard RSA even, is a pain in the ass to work with — for authentication. Why not Ed25519 which has smaller keys or a post-quantum scheme?! I wish Matrix development was done like Mastodon's E2EE.

@openrightsgroup On one hand, the sheer number of people that cannot create an account in a service I maintain because they don't know how to use email is huge! "Check the spam folder!" isn't enough, some people have their inbox full.
Turns out that it's better for Google to charge for inbox space, who guessed? They create an issue — limited storage — and solutions — social login and Google One — while not providing proper solutions — like a good email cleaning tool.
On the other hand, we are in Mastodon, most people here know tech quite well, I hope people here don't have those issues.

@LukefromDC @aral I am still waiting for Mastodon to have E2EE support.