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Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon (wedistribute.org)
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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.

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[-] blah3166@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

Any we client including Matrix webclient is incredibly vulnerable to the server just injecting JS

That doesn't preclude fediverse clients from enabling E2EE. A web-client isn't a requirement.

Like there is no point of E2E encryption in Twitter, Musk can read your messages if you open them on any device he can execute arbitrary code on.

Agreed, nobody should trust twitter, but I would trust most mastodon clients to send encrypted messages, if/when implemented correctly. Does it guarantee that messages will never be read? No, but it does an extra layer that wasn't there before.

this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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