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People, Not Posts: Part II - Real Housewives of San Francisco
What comes after social media?
People, Not Posts: Part II - Real Housewives of San Francisco
What comes after social media?
1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part I - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Putting Social Media Back on the Internet
1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part I - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Putting Social Media Back on the Internet
1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part I - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Putting Social Media Back on the Internet
People, Not Posts - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Why do we still call it "social media"?
People, Not Posts - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Why do we still call it "social media"?
1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part II - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Unpacking the Invisible PDS
1 Year on the AT Protocol: Part II - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Unpacking the Invisible PDS
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
The End of Textuality - Real Housewives of San Francisco
Authenticity in the age of GenAI
Every Voice and Video Call on Discord Is Now End-to-End Encrypted
As of March 2026, E2EE is now enforced for every voice and video call on Discord. This represents a multi-year commitment, and Discord’s VP of Engineering is here to talk about why it matters.


interesting thread about E2EE DMs when deeply embedded in a social app, versus not: content embed visibility, interaction leakage, message history, importance of defaults. (use germ and/or signal!)
Jon Millican
I've seen a lot of chatter today about Instagram ending support for optional End-to-End Encrypted DMs. I helped to lead on cryptography and privacy for E2EE in Messenger and Instagram for many years, until I left around 10 months ago, so it's disappointing to see it being removed from Instagram.
From Bluesky’s work on permissions data, to adding e2ee to activitypub, there are a lot of projects working on private data, converging towards something that’s roughly Matrix-shaped. But the dynamics underneath turned out to be stranger than I thought connectedplaces.online/reports/fr163-decrypting-matr…
FR#163 – Decrypting Matrix
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