Secure non-public uploaded photos

[denschub (Dennis Schubert)]

There has been a discussion about this exact topic less than two weeks ago:

Is there any way to make image uploads private?

I was surprised to find out that uploaded images have public URLs that are visible to the entire internet. Is there any way to limit images to only be available while logged in? One of the biggest reasons I wanted diaspora was as a way to share pictures of my kids without putting them on the open web, but that seems to not be possible with diaspora. I know I can use something like Mega and share the password via diaspora, but I don’t want my friends and family to have to open a different page a…