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by Repulsion9513 845 days ago
> The whole point of end-to-end encryption is that you don't have to trust the people running the service you use.

Well then I guess it's pointless because it doesn't accomplish that.

(The actual point, FYI, is that you don't have to trust all of: them, their hosting providers, your ISP, the ISPs between, the government, and their mom.)

> it is very much possible for you to know about it

"Possible" != "done"

> analyzing network traffic

How are you gonna do that? Surely if they wanted to sniff it would still just look like any other encrypted data

> gives the community a good chance at catching malicious updates

Sure, when the same application is used by everyone, which is not true in either the Mastodon world or the new Bluesky-small-instances world