Enforcing user’s privacy from their decentralized social network node admin isn’t an easy task. I explore two potential solutions, the compromising lightweight “Paranoid Mode” and the full-featured “Third-party client”. At Friendica, a decentralized social network compatible with Diaspora* and Mastodon, we claim protecting user’s privacy, but it’s only true to a limited extent. If users … Continue reading Encrypting private data in a social network web app