▲ 613 ▼ Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon (wedistribute.org) submitted 7 months ago by deadsuperhero@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world 93 comments fedilink hide all child comments Important progress has been made regarding bringing MLS end-to-end encryption to the ActivityPub protocol, with developers already building implementations and providing feedback to a future version of the protocol spec.
[–] knova@infosec.pub 8 points 7 months ago (4 children) You cannot, two totally different protocols permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [+] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (2 children) I mean, there's nothing technically stopping one app supporting both protocols natively, especially since Lemmy already includes a field for people's profiles to link their Matrix ID. Though to my knowledge none do it yet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] knova@infosec.pub 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Sure, in the same way there is nothing stopping Lemmy from using ATProto. The problem is all competing standards and what the developer chooses to use. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 point 7 months ago Perhaps, but I'm describing something slightly different. Your description is basically "one platform supporting two protocols that basically do the same thing". I'm talking more about "one app that has two separate-but-related bits of functionality, each using the more appropriate protocol for that job". permalink fedilink source parent
[+] ageedizzle@piefed.ca 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (2 children) I mean, there's nothing technically stopping one app supporting both protocols natively, especially since Lemmy already includes a field for people's profiles to link their Matrix ID. Though to my knowledge none do it yet. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] knova@infosec.pub 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Sure, in the same way there is nothing stopping Lemmy from using ATProto. The problem is all competing standards and what the developer chooses to use. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 point 7 months ago Perhaps, but I'm describing something slightly different. Your description is basically "one platform supporting two protocols that basically do the same thing". I'm talking more about "one app that has two separate-but-related bits of functionality, each using the more appropriate protocol for that job". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] knova@infosec.pub 2 points 7 months ago (1 child) Sure, in the same way there is nothing stopping Lemmy from using ATProto. The problem is all competing standards and what the developer chooses to use. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 point 7 months ago Perhaps, but I'm describing something slightly different. Your description is basically "one platform supporting two protocols that basically do the same thing". I'm talking more about "one app that has two separate-but-related bits of functionality, each using the more appropriate protocol for that job". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 point 7 months ago Perhaps, but I'm describing something slightly different. Your description is basically "one platform supporting two protocols that basically do the same thing". I'm talking more about "one app that has two separate-but-related bits of functionality, each using the more appropriate protocol for that job". permalink fedilink source parent