[brundolf]

Thanks for weighing in

It's disappointing to hear that follower-only/circles (whitelisted viewers) posts are basically incompatible with the current protocol. I'd hoped something could be done where the post content was encrypted in such a way that only specific authenticated users could decrypt it, or something along those lines

[capableweb]

It doesn't sound too hard to layer on top of AT Proto. You already have cryptographic building blocks so you can encrypt content for specific users, I'd guess the only thing that is missing having something like that is the actual UI.

But I haven't done a deep-dive into the protocol, just a surface glance so far.

[afiori]

From what I gather it looks like this feature would not be a good fit for the current architecture.