Well, well. Just a week ago [0] I was lamenting the fact that Signal was too centralised. This comment was made in the context of P2P not being the best solution (due to other privacy issues), but that something in between was needed. When will Signal realise that the centralised approach to hosting is not going to last forever? The code is open source. The server code is supposedly open source, but on closer inspection it is missing some features and is very out of date. The actual server code is clearly still kept close to their chests.
There needs to be a way for the same Signal application to, in an emergency, connect to a different server. Perhaps even some form of federation so that once somebody switches server, they can still reach people on a different server if need be. I would absolutely love to see some work done on making a Matrix/Signal hybrid.
There needs to be a way for the same Signal application to, in an emergency, connect to a different server. Perhaps even some form of federation so that once somebody switches server, they can still reach people on a different server if need be. I would absolutely love to see some work done on making a Matrix/Signal hybrid.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25976914
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