-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 A Joint Statement on Recent Events Between Signal and the Anti-Censorship Community Sorry to bother you all, but in light of recent events that have ...
Signal is playing a bad idol role here by condemning decentralisation, and with how Moxie shut down a good chunk of the anti censorship community.
Ease of use has to be the key for flourishing of pro FOSS culture. Decentralisation will never be superior to centralisation in ease of use, simply because one has to take extra step of either creating own homeserver, or chasing the servers that follow protocols, and are reliable and speedy as well. And there will always be some kind of issue even if one started to index and rate servers accordingly.
There are many servers, but only a handful are decent like ejabber, jabber, snopyta, 404city and so on.
The situation is complex with decentralisation, hence it can only be a second alternative. Matrix is tipping the line between XMPP and Signal, though. (Matrix has shitty clients though, Element acting weird unless you have high speed connection. XMPP works even at less than 2G speeds.)
Signal is playing a bad idol role here by condemning decentralisation, and with how Moxie shut down a good chunk of the anti censorship community.
Ease of use has to be the key for flourishing of pro FOSS culture. Decentralisation will never be superior to centralisation in ease of use, simply because one has to take extra step of either creating own homeserver, or chasing the servers that follow protocols, and are reliable and speedy as well. And there will always be some kind of issue even if one started to index and rate servers accordingly.
There are many servers, but only a handful are decent like ejabber, jabber, snopyta, 404city and so on.
The situation is complex with decentralisation, hence it can only be a second alternative. Matrix is tipping the line between XMPP and Signal, though. (Matrix has shitty clients though, Element acting weird unless you have high speed connection. XMPP works even at less than 2G speeds.)