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Re:Wire Server open sourced by bubblethink on Thursday September 21, 2017 @02:26PM (#15306159)
>But until any of these new age apps/platforms support federation and decentralized communication, there's not much use for the masses to look for servers run by specific people.

What's the use case for self hosting ? Since it's supposed to be e2e, does self-hosting buy you anything ?

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Re:Wire Server open sourced by Siimteller on Monday September 25, 2017 @05:19AM (#15328971)
It’s a requirement many organizations have - government institutions are a good example. Some might want to not leak any data to the outside world, run it only for internal use, etc.
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Re:Wire Server open sourced by zeveb on Thursday September 21, 2017 @04:20PM (#15306988)
Depending on the details of the protocol, it might defend against certain patterns of traffic & contact analysis.
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