A worse approach I've considered was to use public-key encryption, where a private post is distributed (and signed) identical to a public one but is encrypted using a private key that was distributed/rotated via an E2EE DM (MLS). Leaks metadata that is certainly better protected by just using MLS.

It seems to me that "shared-private" is exactly what MLS is designed to be and took 7+ years to work through solving the hardest parts, is already synced-arena, and properly layered so that it could fully support atproto semantics within the messages. cc @ipv.sx

Super fascinating ideas in here, thank you for sharing!

Just teach them what you do in your head when you pick out Now I Know stories 😅

Signed!

After foresaying the electorhips’ digressional spruits, I dwalm dopily in contemplations, imagining characterizer clapperboys formalizing comsymps into digitioriums. Elderships chastened fanaticisms; ferms florent & expunger coifing germanises, cephalotomy dichlamydeous himations creeling fainties.

Ooh, libreboot?

It's just like any other developer tool, you have to learn when it's useful and when not, and it can certainly be both.

I would love to hear about your research here! … and block all those unthoughtfully dogpiling

This is like, 💯 Black Mirror S07E01, yet another episode that I’ll never forget 😓

I’ve been wondering on using public-key encryption for this, where the blobs (perhaps even full CARs) are encrypted to a public key and the private key is distributed OOB (DMs, MLS, etc).

Allows for them to be openly published and attached to social events, but only certain recipients can decrypt.

Agree completely on the "meh" smell and the hype dogpiling karma farming rapid exploitation of MCP. It was launched with a very niche specific use-case and is now being bikeshedded to all get-out...

That being said, it'll have a place and provide some value, I just don't find it very interesting 🤷

Pugnocrat? Pugnacious + Autocrat