Unpopular opinion: the silver lining in server outages is that they pull the curtain & reveal some hard truths about who is really behind some services we use...
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Unpopular opinion: the silver lining in server outages is that they pull the curtain & reveal some hard truths about who is really behind some services we use... especially stuff we think are alternatives to Big Tech (spoiler: maybe they aren't).
Case in point: last year's #Microsoft outage took out #DuckDuckGo (https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-outage-affects-bing-copilot-duckduckgo-chatgpt).
Today's Amazon's AWS outage took out #Signal in some areas: https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115405436746725236
Oh my, is this time to convince my family & friends to move to Matrix?
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@fabiux @_elena
I also used my own xmpp server for my family. But I switched back to signal because xmpp client doesn't crypt data on client devices.
SimpleX is easy to use like signal and is decentralized (with tor relay). I tried it since weeks but I don't have my family for now. It's hard to make people switching over and over.
The big cons about Signal is it is centralized so it has a single point of failure and can be easily censor. -
@thomasbourdon @_elena
They **are** truly E2EE with several clients (such as Conversations.im or Monocles Chat) if you enable OMEMO or OTR.
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