In my opinion, the idea of limiting access for a group of friends looks controversial. Your friends, relatives have not signed up to not redistribute the content to other folks/friends. Taking that into consideration, it is reasonable to edit out all private content and then make the posts public.
The other rationale for public posting is that hidden, close circle posts do not bring you more friends or co-thinkers. Hidden posting is not about being social, IMO.
However, in case of closed, invite-only community with some kind of regulation enforced or in case of company staff bounded with NDA, your approach sounds reasonable.
Maybe your project should target corporate segment. All that crypto ciher gears, preventing data leaks, would be much more relevant there.
I was frustrated seeing more and more local businesses or media companies moving to closed social networks while letting their open websites become deserted. Interesting information became not just harder to find, all my interactions are now monitored and analyzed.
Ideally, social networks should just be "like the WWW".
There are multiple proposals for decentralized social networks like Diaspora, ActivityPub, AT Protocol or SSB. Interestingly, all of them are using either a federated or a peer-to-peer architecture, but none so far the IMHO obvious approach – like the WWW.
SPXP instead uses a client / server architecture and radically pushes power into endpoint devices, giving users and content creators full control.
In my opinion, the idea of limiting access for a group of friends looks controversial. Your friends, relatives have not signed up to not redistribute the content to other folks/friends. Taking that into consideration, it is reasonable to edit out all private content and then make the posts public.
The other rationale for public posting is that hidden, close circle posts do not bring you more friends or co-thinkers. Hidden posting is not about being social, IMO.
However, in case of closed, invite-only community with some kind of regulation enforced or in case of company staff bounded with NDA, your approach sounds reasonable. Maybe your project should target corporate segment. All that crypto ciher gears, preventing data leaks, would be much more relevant there.