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I was the Fediverse explaining to a friend today, who needs an alternative to Facebook.

And, the big bummer for her, and also for me, is that neither #Pixelfed nor #Mastodon have any option to fine-grain who can see a picture.
The concept of how #Facebook, or Google+ have been doing it, is something people would love to see.

The Fediverse propagates #privacy, but at this point it's failing.

I know in #hubzilla there is an option, but the biggest ones don't have it.

The question is: why?

in reply to Jörgi (chaos.social)

Can there be privacy when uploading to a public website? If the photos are stored unencrypted and federated between servers, I'm not sure how well restricting who can see it would really work.
in reply to Taasz/Woof

@woof
I totally understand the problem about the federation.

Also: if one server/software ignores "the privacy setting", or implemented it wrongly, it could happens, that it's publicly on the "bad" server.

I really hope there will be a @w3c standard for this one time in the activity pub.

No idea, if the founders @dansup (Pixelfed) or @Gargron (Mastodon) ever thought about implementing something like this in there software.

I don't see the "public website" thing, you can still selfhost it.

in reply to Jörgi (chaos.social)

Public meaning its on the internet unencrypted in this context.

I'd say for private sharing with only a select group of people, maybe a messenger app with good encryption like Delta Chat or Signal is the much safer option!

in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾

@vextaur
And? I was complaining that you can't say, who is allowed to see a picture and who not.

(I know Pixelfed, I'm even having my own instance)

in reply to Jörgi (chaos.social)

@Jörgi (chaos.social) Maybe? I'd have to start digging through settings, and could take me a good amount of time to figure out if'n its possible as the settings are a dumpster fire.
in reply to Jörgi (chaos.social)

@Jörgi (chaos.social) I must have missed that you mentioned Pixelfed, I'd seen Mastodon, and figured I'd toss it out as Dan's been good about being innovative usually, and if the tag attracts his attention, he'll prolly pop up to discuss it.