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I'm always befuddled by how some people really take things so literally...
It must be exhausting never to take a break from befuddlement, you really ought to consider only feeling this way some of the time, or at least spend some time befuddled by other things.
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Centralized management does not mean centralized infrastructure. Any of these systems could distribute the APIs and message delivery infra across multiple independent jurisdictions, regions, and providers, and do clientside load balancing. The fact that these systems are centralized in management does not mean that they need to have any SPOFs. Also, the Apple App Store and iOS activation servers are the biggest SPOFs…
> Centralized management does not mean centralized infrastructure. Any of these systems could distribute the APIs and message delivery infra across multiple independent jurisdictions, regions, and providers, and do clientside load balancing. While true, Signal hasn't done this as far as I know. Until they do, their infrastructure is just as centralized as WhatsApps.
They are owned/managed by the company that popularized "move fast and break things" (though to be clear I do not think that they intentionally take this approach with WA or IG or the FB advertising infrastructure).
Time to talk about matrix.org and Element not Signal and definitely not Telegram...
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You can improve the UX of Matrix clients. You can not make Telegram decentralized or take it out of control of one single entity.
Well if you can, then why aren't they as good as Telegram, and why should I be holding my breath for their UI / UX to suddenly improve? Matrix has been around for almost as long as Telegram. I don't use either so I don't really care. I just don't expect a consumer service with subpar UI to win market share solely on technical merits.
Time to talk about matrix.org and Element not Signal and definitely not Telegram...
Seems like a good time to plug Session: https://getsession.org/ Open source, doesn't require a phone number, and a big strength is that it's decentralized, which makes it much less vulnerable to outages like this. "Session utilises the decentralised Oxen Service Node Network to store and route messages. This means that unlike P2P messaging applications you can message Session users when they are offline. This network…
> Oxen blockchain and the $OXEN privacy token
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> Centralized management does not mean centralized infrastructure. Any of these systems could distribute the APIs and message delivery infra across multiple independent jurisdictions, regions, and providers, and do clientside load balancing. While true, Signal hasn't done this as far as I know. Until they do, their infrastructure is just as centralized as WhatsApps.
WhatsApp's infrastructure is not centralized; I would bet that this outage was caused by an engineering mistake, not by the failure of some datacenter or cable. They are owned/managed by the company that popularized "move fast and break things" (though to be clear I do not think that they intentionally take this approach with WA or IG or the FB advertising infrastructure).
If one engineering mistake can take it down, it's not decentralized. Or an action, not necessarily a mistake. It's at least somewhat centralized. An individual can be asked to take it down. In a correctly decentralized service, that can't happen.
Time to talk about matrix.org and Element not Signal and definitely not Telegram...
Why not the IETF standard XMPP?
No, this is not a question, this is an answer. At this point, XMPP is not a solution, but a basis for an actual coherent solution to be built on, but it does not exist yet (or anymore).
Matrix is also only a partial answer, because in practice you will direct users to matrix.org, and that makes matrix.org not a single point of failure, but still a huge point of failure and matrix will be down for most people if matrix.org goes down.
Yep, actually enjoying the lack of notifications right now. Though for my closest friends and family we still have Signal as backup.
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Telegram (per default) does not have end-to-end encryption.
"Telegram is more secure than mass market messengers like WhatsApp and Line." https://telegram.org/faq#q-how-secure-is-telegram
It uses a homebrew encryption scheme and does not have E2E encryption (yes, you can enable E2E for individual chats, but nobody uses it because it breaks most features).
Not to mention the weird corporate structure, lack of transparency, failed crypto token launch, dishonest marketing...