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Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

All your contacts will still be gone when their servers shut down.

[–] theherk 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So? Data permanence isn’t the main idea of Signal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Now everyone is using WhatsApp again and all energy that went towards convincing everyone to use Signal is lost. A better use of that energy would have been be to promote provider independent internet standards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Not in my social circles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Using the current server distribution of my contacts, I would never loose more than 13% of my contacts if a single server shuts down. Federated systems are much more resilient against providers shutting down as well as takeovers. Think Reddit vs Lemmy, Twitter vs Mastodon, Signal vs XMPP.