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by JumpCrisscross 446 days ago
> if you have 10k followers you’re proposing to encrypt every post 10k times?

I mean, yes. Why you’re sending a “private” post to ten thousand people is another question.

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that sounds like a UX nightmare, what happens when you approve a new follower? do you encrypt your entire post history for them? how long would that take ?
> do you encrypt your entire post history for them?

Sure.

> how long would that take ?

Shouldn’t take THAT long. This is the cost of privacy.

Imo society is wasting compute on less interesting problems than this one