@aroque I think @mike holds a grudge to previous # dev team. Apparently they had strifes. I think they're doing good work with # for a different use-case than for !gnusocial. There are different kinds of secure, private etc. and there is some overlap but our implementations are not necessarily trying to solve the same problem.

I have several times commented on the non-privateness of !GNUsocial and that to protect one's identity - other measures must be used (pseudonym profile, onion routing etc.). # is very pronounced on how it's protecting all of these things and I'm just not sure how well-grounded those statements are.

As I said, I'm not saying anything about @mike's et. al implementation. I am just a paranoid conservatist.