Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
circles are dead and the heyday of twitter alts is clearly ending but they still have no good replacement. i'm so sad.
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eta
(replying to Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many))
@hikari I wonder whether you could hack this in on top of fedi software's support for private posts (as in, a circles post can be a private mention to each follower inside the circle)
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Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to eta)
@eta the fediverse is the last thing i want to use because it has no encryption and no real control over how many people's hands the message passes
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
(replying to eta)
@eta oh you definitely could do that though i am not sure i'd recommend doing it unless you can make every client out there display it in a non-confusing way
Kanbaru 🌟 (one hikari of too many)
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(i wanted to make an end-to-end-encrypted app that replicates the twitter alt experience, but i don't have the network effect magic pull that'd make all my friends and potential friends use it, and i'm already at risk for OSS maintainer burnout without dabbling in cryptography)