Support for Private Accounts #1409
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My understanding of private accounts on most platforms is that it isn't just following that is controlled, but general public access to all of the content. The current version of the federated protocol that Bluesky is built on, atproto, only supports public content, not private content. A future iteration of the protocol may support private content, using group encryption, but this will be a large piece of work. We have ideas on how to achieve this (and we are not looking for suggestions or opinions at this time), but we are focusing on getting the public content use-case to work well before we tackle the private-content use case. We understand that this is an important feature and use case for many people. |
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With Bluesky opening up to the general web public, what is the status of this feature? Privacy settings should always be a priority before any kind of open internet access to avoid opening the users to unfiltered abuse. |
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I'm guessing this is still way down on the priority list since the complexity appears to be quite high. Is that the case? |
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Just wanted to point out that there are also legal obligations, especially in countries like Germany that have strict privacy laws. |
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Prominent SNS (X [Twitter], Instagram, Mastodon, etc…) have the ability to make accounts private.
This means that the other party cannot follow you unless you allow them to.
Currently, Bluesky (AT Protocol) does not seem to have such a feature implemented, so there is a risk that an unknown user may see your posts and feel uncomfortable.
Please consider implementing private accounts to make it as easy to use as other SNS.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation in the above.
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