Permissioned Data Diary 1: To Encrypt or Not to Encrypt
[End-to-end encryption may have become the baseline for messages, but not everything needs that. Nobody expects a large group forum or Patreon-style membership area to deal with secret keys.]
this inherent complexity isn’t something that the protocol team at Bluesky can just handle - it gets pushed out to every dev trying to build a client that works with encrypted data.
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