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Privacy is a must.

Privacy is your freedom.

Privacy should be in your control.

Not your friends, your lover, your government, your instagram, your twitter, your phone, your whatsapp, not anyone.

You🫵🏼 should be able to control it. We should be able to do it.👥

And Nostr is the answer for it.

Nostr is the way.

Rosalia 2y ago

Hi. I agree that privacy is a must.

Isn’t Nostr a privacy nightmare at this point?

As far as I understand, anyone , anywhere can see everything you post. Users have no control over that. Nothing can be deleted. Even people who are here anonymously can accidentally dox themselves.

You can use others’ public keys to log into their accounts and see their DMs I think? And their feed. You can accidentally leak your private key or accidentally input it into a client that is not safe.

Those are some things that come to mind at the top of my head.

I’m interested to know how you think nostr is good for privacy. Are you imagining something that hasn’t been built yet?

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pwm 2y ago

I don't disagree with you but the solution is quite simple and not in any of the quesitons you asked.

Post no personal information, never use your name, your anything.

Use existing e2e encrypted solutions for "direct messages"

Don't be fucking retarded

This nostr shit is fine for what it is (public pseudonymous discussion) but it will fail miserably if idiots use it for something it isn't (social media for fucking cancerous e-celeb influencer wannabes sending you good vibes)

Rosalia 2y ago

Yes. This seems the be the safe way to use the existing clients.

I see so many people posting so much personal info. Doesn’t seem wise from a privacy protection perspective. It also seems like they don’t know any better and it would be good for more resources to exist about how to use clients responsibly.

What are existing e2e encrypted solutions? I’m not actually very tech savvy.

pwm 2y ago

Anything that properly implements the double ratchet protocol is probably fine bordering on ideal. XMPP's omemo is my preferred implementation and IM service.

Technically e2e encryption over email or literally any medium that can exchange text using AGE or PGP is also fine and fairly battle-tested.

Since none of those are peer to peer though, someone will always know you sent a message to someone else, but not what it entailed.

AFAIK there are no widespread p2p and e2e encrypted solutions, but maybe I'm just not plugged in to the right places

Rosalia 2y ago

Thanks for sharing.

Toxic Positivity 2y ago

Privacy and decentralization are antonyms on public boards. You get to have one, and only one.