2026-07-08 07:30 UTC
Crucially, everything about this is fully e2e encrypted and decentralised: your account is a crypto key, and you are mainly responsible for keeping the list of people you are "friends" with.
3rd party servers act as dumb "mailbox" relays (to make up for the fact that most people's devices aren't always online or can't easily work as p2p), but only store fully encrypted payloads, and can theoretically be replaced by any other system.
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#e2ee #crypto #security #decentralized #p2p
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@deivudesu@mastodon.social 2026-07-08 07:36
Building this around ego-graphs (subgraphs of the real underlying social network, centred around one user) allows for a much simpler (and more decentralised) model than protocols like #ActivityPub, #Matrix etc, that need to reconcile multiple participants having equal rights on a discussion space… The trade-off, is that it does not scale very well: these ego-graphs must remain at a manageable size (~10-15k people). … which is a feature, not a bug™ #mastodon #telegram #signal #graphs 3/ 🧵