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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Isn't signal owned by a single company with backend infrastructure all Managed by them and only them?

The current CEO is nice, for sure, but she won't be there forever. Look at what Mozilla just did, this eventually WILL happen to signal too

What alternatives are there form something like signal?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can self-host Signal, although youโ€™d need your friends to sign up with your server.

What we really need is a federated messaging platform. I donโ€™t think itโ€™s been done yet, but encrypted email efforts are kinda in that direction.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Matrix is trying to fill that gap

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