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What If: Signal Was Part of the Fediverse? (signal.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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Anyone else wondering?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It sounds like you're slightly mis-remembering this oft-cited Hacker News comment from Moxie from 2015. I'm going to quote the main bit here because honestly a lot of people in this thread could stand to think about it:

If we were going to rank our priorities, they would be in this order:

Make mass surveillance impossible.

Stop targeted attacks against crypto nerds.

It's not that we don't find #2 laudable, but optimizing for #1 takes precedence when we're making decisions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wasn't actually quoting this, but yeah, I think that's the point. Supporting SMS was helping adoption by promoting a seamless transition for users. Dropping it feels like prioritizing #2 to me. (All this comment thread about opsec, compartimentalization, activism, etc is really about #2, IMO)