EVERYONE on Free Republic...
Been playing with a similar protocol using ZeroNet for a few months now. The difference is the only thing on the common servers is the anonymous ID system and temporary email holding. Everything else including any data is encrypted and held in your own machine rather than the common server.
Every peer is both client and server. I now see that this system can actually work without any “common” federated servers at all. You would just have to keep trying to send data until the peer on the other end hooks up to the net to receive it.
But we have dealt with that old school situation before. It would be just like trying to dial into a sever with limited modem lines or a FAX needing to retry until a line is available. A small sacrifice to bypass all the central servers and have optimum privacy and security.
“While it would not have protected all of the data seized by the FBI in this case, end-to-end encryption of direct messages is something that has been regrettably absent from Mastodon for years, and would at least have protected the most private content likely to have been on the Kolektiva server,”
End to end encryption of EVERYTHING...