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Blaze@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 10 months ago

There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

www.theverge.com

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There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS

www.theverge.com

Blaze@piefed.zip to Privacy@programming.devEnglish · 10 months ago
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‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS
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Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.
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    You don’t understand, we NEED to be on AWS, there isn’t really another choice.

    You don’t understand, we NEED to have your phone number in our private messenger.

    You don’t understand, we CAN’T be on f-droid.

    You don’t understand, we MUST have centralized servers, federation CANNOT work.

    Did I miss anything?

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      https://simplex.chat/

      Self hostable as well

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        Yep.

        Either this or Matrix, XMPP or even IRC. Anything but Signal basically.

        Yet Signal is what people here usually recommend :/ I don’t even want to argue with them anymore.

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          deleted by creator

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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          Can IRC even be encrypted?

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            Yeah, for… Decades?

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          I got my family on sxc over a year ago it works pretty good for us

          I was like if I’m gonna make them all switch apps anyway I may as well go for gold lol

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