A few questions from a newbie
1. What's the security level/situation on Friendica? I remember with Mastodon people were being clear that messages weren't end-to-end encrypted, that your instance admin could read them. Is the same true with Friendica, messages and private posts?
This is not a criticism; Fediverse sites run by people setting up their servers works differently to centralised stuff. Just wanting to understand.
2. I see lots of mentions of the Bluesky connector, but generally without details. I've found fed.brid.gy/ that appears to do the link - is stuff like that what's meant, or is there another more official/advanced/whatever conector?
3. Lastly, someone I don't know has commented on a public post of mine, as they are entirely entitled to do! But now they appear in my 'Everyone' feed, which feels a bit weird. Can I control my Everyone feed?
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Tobias
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1.) This is basically true for all Fediverse communication AFAIK there are only a very few isolated implementations of E2EE but no standard. But yes, in principal admins can read your public & private postings on Friendica as well - except if you post the ASCII armored OpenPGP encrypted [or similar tech] version of your postings (which would be fine, as Friendica does not impose a character limit on your postings).
2.) The connectors in Friendica work on a direct level. You have an account at a service for which a Friendica connector exists, then you can use Friendica basically as "client app" and see e.g. your Bluesky, tumblr, X stream within your regular Friendica UI. Friendica then logs into the connected service via the API and posts/pulls from the other service.
The Bluesky bridge that can be used to expose an ActifityPub account into the AT-protocol network (so bridging the Fediverse and the Bluesky network) does also work for Friendica accounts.
3.) If I understand you correctly, then this might be happening because
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1.) This is basically true for all Fediverse communication AFAIK there are only a very few isolated implementations of E2EE but no standard. But yes, in principal admins can read your public & private postings on Friendica as well - except if you post the ASCII armored OpenPGP encrypted [or similar tech] version of your postings (which would be fine, as Friendica does not impose a character limit on your postings).
2.) The connectors in Friendica work on a direct level. You have an account at a service for which a Friendica connector exists, then you can use Friendica basically as "client app" and see e.g. your Bluesky, tumblr, X stream within your regular Friendica UI. Friendica then logs into the connected service via the API and posts/pulls from the other service.
The Bluesky bridge that can be used to expose an ActifityPub account into the AT-protocol network (so bridging the Fediverse and the Bluesky network) does also work for Friendica accounts.
3.) If I understand you correctly, then this might be happening because of the scope of the followed content (Account Settings -> Social Networks -> General Social Media Settings -> Followed Content Scope). Could you check what scope level you have chosen there?
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Rolling these together rather than replying separately saying the same thing 😄
1. TBH, the main thing is just knowing the score – there's a load of encrypted messengers available. There'll hopefully come a point where Frendica is enough of how I interact with people that it'd be lovely to not need another thing for Definitely Private chat. But that's a good long way away!
2. So where do I find the connector; how do I make use of it? I did assume Googling, found a bunch of mentions of it, but no links, how to use/connect, whether the instance admin has to have set it up, etc.
3. My followed content scope has defaulted to "Conversations my follows started or commented on", and I've not (yet) changed that.
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in reply to FearMeForIAmPink • • •2.) The connectors are addons that have to be activated by your nodes admin. If they are activated, then you find them in "Settings -> Social Networks".
3.) Mmh... then I had the wrong idea. With that scope you should not see random peoples postings. What exactly is your 'everyone' stream? The network stream without any filterings/channels applied or something else? Also please check that contact, just to make sure you are not following them by accident.
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