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   Raphael Lullis (raphael@mastodon.communick.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 19:40:50 JST Raphael Lullis

   • dansup

   @dansup you can do this is in a privacy-preserving way, no?

   - Instead of asking the user to upload their contacts, get the user own email/phone/pixelfed account handle.

   - Upload a hash of the private contact information, paired with clean text pixelfed account info.

   - Other people now are able to find each other by simply asking your service "do you know anyone with this hash?", and in case your service answers yes, then your app can say "yes, you should talk with so-and-so@pixelfed.

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     Raphael Lullis (raphael@mastodon.communick.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 19:43:44 JST Raphael Lullis

     • dansup

     @dansup almost. What I am saying is that you don't even need to upload the contact list. You can do the matching in the device.

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     melpomene@erisly.social's status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 19:57:47 JST Melpomene

     • dansup
     • pixelfed

     @dansup@mastodon.social @pixelfed@mastodon.social it isn't a bad idea, it's just not am idea that I'd find particularly useful. I try not to mix real life and my fediverse life, so I'd not want my number out there to be searched. I'd also worry that it might open the door to bad actors using it to doxx folk.