Protonmail has opensourced lots of their software in recent years.

Well put

If i recall correctly, Moxie was primarily frustrated by libre-signal because it was using signal name. He was also frustrated with custom clients, but he should see this as an improvement if he was being genuine.

No matter how well you encrypt email, the technical sender and recipient will always be unencrypted, as otherwise the messages could not be delivered. So servers. isps, and surveillance programs will log who is talking to who and what servers are being used.

Similarly, facebook delivers ‘encrypted’ messages but still knows who, where and when the users are. This is the ‘meta’ information. Like how the postal service can read the sender, receiving address and stamped date.

Some practical examples: -Drug dealer gets busted using E2E on facebook, at very least the authorities will know who is messaging them and when, opening them to an investigation, whether or not they had anything to do with drugs. -Local activist is surveilled, authorities can trace their contacts and active periods.

We wouldn’t know.

Distributed networks obviously distribute risk, but with more attack vectors and more non-professional instance managers it definitely is less secure.

I see the Fediverse as a huge success

I don’t think anyone is trying to disparage it, just wondering why it doesn’t rival corporate social media.

All the fediverse social networks are just federated alternatives to already existing social networks + federation. This means that the bulk of people won’t adopt them unless they care about federation with a small community over the non-federated network.

Federated solutions won’t rival major social networks unless they are innovating the next features and solutions instead of making alternatives to already existing and dominant networks.

add people in video games.