<![CDATA[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...]]>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 outage took out (https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-outage-affects-bing-copilot-duckduckgo-chatgpt).

Today's Amazon's AWS outage took out 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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They **are** truly E2EE with several clients (such as Conversations.im or Monocles Chat) if you enable OMEMO or OTR.
Am I wrong?

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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.

]]>https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/users/thomasbourdon/statuses/115405575381937792https://bbs.spacc.eu.org/new/post/https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/users/thomasbourdon/statuses/115405575381937792Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:35:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to 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... on Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:21:55 GMT]]>@_elena : or run your own server (e.g., Prosody).
I set up my very private one for my family: secure, light, fast, open source.

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