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Re:Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances by JumpCrisscross on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:01PM (#43530432)
> if you have 10k followers you’re proposing to encrypt every post 10k times?

I mean, yes. Why you’re sending a “private” post to ten thousand people is another question.

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Re:Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances by Raed667 on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:05PM (#43530466)
that sounds like a UX nightmare, what happens when you approve a new follower? do you encrypt your entire post history for them? how long would that take ?
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Re:Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances by JumpCrisscross on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:50PM (#43530759)
> do you encrypt your entire post history for them?

Sure.

> how long would that take ?

Shouldn’t take THAT long. This is the cost of privacy.

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Re:Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances by evbogue on Sunday March 30, 2025 @11:19PM (#43530539)
Imo society is wasting compute on less interesting problems than this one
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