Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by Snowden

Re:Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by S... by kethinov on Sunday May 12, 2019 @03:55PM (#19894131)

Signal isn't federated. Use Matrix instead.

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Re:Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by S... by pugworthy on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:07PM (#19894217)

For those like me who aren’t used to the term federated...

“Federated architecture (FA) is a pattern in enterprise architecture that allows interoperability and information sharing between semi-autonomous de-centrally organized lines of business (LOBs), information technology systems and applications.“

—Wikipedia

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Re:Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by S... by cbHXBY1D on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:40PM (#19894431)

For those who want to know why it's not federated: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

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Re:Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by S... by Whatitat90 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @06:21PM (#19894953)

For those who want to know why it still should be federated: https://gultsch.de/objection.html

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Re:Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by S... by BlackRing on Sunday May 12, 2019 @05:12PM (#19894611)

riot/matrix is substantially worse in usability than Signal.

In addition, if you wanted something federated with decent crypto, an xmpp server with something as basic as TLS and OTR on the server and clients would be far more usable than matrix.

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Re:Signal, a fast, secure and simple messenger endorsed by S... by Hamuko on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:52PM (#19894487)

These people really need to come up with better Googleable names.

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