Moxie Marlinspikes:"One of the controversial things we did with Signal early on was to build it as an unfederated service. Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all."
So after reading this I thought, well, everything that we like about signal can be turned into a federated messenger. Why is nobody doing it?
I gave me at least a little bit of hope that someone or, some group will.
I believe the need for privacy is getting more urgent by the minute.. The situation has changed quite a bit, since that decision at signals was made. We need a signal -quality messenger as part of the fediverse
#Signal #matrix #xmpp #privacy #security #opensource #fediverse
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