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Private data will come to ATProto, it's not a finished protocol

What’s the plan for this? Sharing with a specific group (DM, group chat, feeds from people you follow) are critical to social media.

See https://www.pfrazee.com/leaflets/3lzhui2zbxk2b for some recent thoughts from a team member.

Bnewbold's comment on GitHub is still the best resource. It's far more specific in scope and details. Paul's note is more theoretical / philosophical

https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/3363 - maybe this one?

yes, that is the one everyone is using as a guiding light for where we think Bsky is headed for their private data needs, which is group-shared / not e2ee because key mgmt is an unsolved problem at scale. They need to support creators with subscriber only content. E2EE will emerge from the messaging space first, i.e. Signal / MLS like

Bsky is likely to put out a short-term gap filler this year for personal-private data, which kind of already exists today for Bsky only. This work would make that same feature in the per-user repo available to all apps. Right now it's hard coded to a specific NSID and single db row

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