Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate@mastodon.social
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Soooo... There's already some big stuff in the works for 2026:

The Social Web Foundation (@swf) has kicked off a project to bring real end-to-end encryption to the Fediverse. It's a big undertaking, with real financial backing from the @sovtechfundSovereign Tech Agency

Check out the announcement: socialwebfoundation.org/2025/1

And, I'm very excited that is one of the projects selected to participate in the work alongside the @bonfire team.

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Implementing Encrypted Messaging over ActivityPub

One of the project areas of the Social Web Foundation for the last year has been end-to-end encrypted messaging. ActivityPub, the standard protocol that powers the Social Web, has privacy controls,…

socialwebfoundation.org · Social Web Foundation

Link author: Evan Prodromou@evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org

Ben Pate 🤘🏻 @benpate@mastodon.social
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What will this mean? We're working with extensions to ActivityPub to bring top-tier encryption into the Fediverse - the same industry standard that powers Android, Apple, Discord, and others.

We're aiming to release our first versions mid-year.

and are great choices because each is a sort of "application builder" that can be molded to fit many different situations. It's going to be a massive undertaking, but I'm looking forward to the results

@swf @sovtechfundSovereign Tech Agency @bonfire

screenshot of a dialog titled "encrypted message". "Ben Pate" in the "Participants" field, message box is empty, and text above the "Send encrypted" button says "This will be encrypted before it leaves this device and will not be readable by anyone other than the recipients".
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