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1. Christopher Lemmer Webber (cwebber)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 19:43:09 CET Christopher Lemmer Webber

   ActivityPub: Hi I'm literally being born because the former primary author of OStatus regretted not having private messages, let's make private messages the default addressing mechanism and public messages a special exception

   *Years later, AP is a standard and widely adopted*

   Popular meme: "Yeah well ActivityPub is nice and everything but it's too bad its only for public messages"

   Me: ;_;

   • Christopher Lemmer Webber (cwebber)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 19:47:10 CET Christopher Lemmer Webber

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     And before you reply, yeah ActivityPub in its default incarnation is "only as private as email", and that's not quite private enough when the default is mega-nodes, and I agree (self hosting helps).

     There are also intentionally spaces left in the spec to allow for even more private interactions than that and I'm exploring it but damn if you read people talk about it you won't get the sense that it's email-like in its directedness

     it literally even uses to/cc/bcc for crying out loud

   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn)'s status on Monday, 18-Feb-2019 19:54:02 CET MMN-o ✅⃠

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     @cwebber Don't worry, I'm on the team that thinks #ActivityPub should NOT have private messages! .D