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  • i dont use any of them. Mastodon is better than bluesky. Signal is state of the art, but its centralized in amazon servers. Since they are centralized, its like having a big target in their backs - all the bad actors will take a shot at it (not mentioning the current US politics and the fact they need donations to keep providing the service).



  • But isn’t this true for most services, such as Matrix as well? Nothing assures that a Matrix instance is running the exact code on git.

    It’s valid for any server. But for signal messaging is even worse than the competitors because it’s centralized.

    If you selfhost and they want to take your server, they will?

    Correct. With signal there’s no way to escape the US government, but with matrix (or other federated protocol) you can make it harder, so it won’t be worth it the resources spent. You can also host it where the US government don’t have any reach.

    Even if you self-host in a Swiss server, with the best intentions and security practices… Other people are going to have to trust you. You trust yourself, but others might not.

    But who is more trustworthy? The US government or the swiss government?

    Also, the point is to avoid american services. Signal is an american service.



  • And what metadata is Signal leaking?

    We don’t know. We don’t have access to what’s running on their servers. (yes i know that the source code is available, but there’s no way to check if that’s the same thing running on the servers). And this is a problem for me: i have to trust a walled garden.

    The government seizing an entire batch of amazon servers seems unrealistic

    Usually the government goes there a just takes whatever is in the rack they want. Screw the legal business that are there. That’s what happened with the pirate bay raid. If the US government wants to shut it down. It just needs to knock on the amazon door.

    the data would be encrypted anyway. Do they even store messages on servers, anyway?

    The problem is that you have to trust them. You have to trust a chain of organizations based in the US. Signal pays millions (who pays for this? i have my doubts that monthly donations will pay for this forever) to amazon for the servers. So using them and sending them money is the same as giving money to amazon.

    If you are fine with these risks, then use it. Better using signal than using messenger and whatsapp.


  • I register on reddit 17 years ago. Before the great migration from digg. I remember /r/programming being the first sub to reach 100k subscribers.

    I got banned for saying in the /r/europe sub that russia banning youtube in russia was a good thing because then we in the west would get less russian propaganda. Got banned for a couple days. Left and never looked back.

    /r/programming is dead already since around a decade. All the good discussions moved to hackernews and lobsters.

    EDIT: never forget that spez admitted to silently edit user comments that criticized him