That's why Signal is deliberately designing their entire system as a trustless system. The client verifies everything it can, distrusts the server, and the server systems know only the bare minimum they need to relay information. It's quite an elegant design.
While I share your feeling, the flipside of the coin is that so far decentralized services have not scaled up. Mastodon was first, Bluesky is still larger. XMPP was first, Signal and WhatsApp are still larger, because ultimately…
cherti
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2025-02-03 16:13:33 UTC
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