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Re:Signal is having technical difficulties on Friday January 15, 2021 @05:00PM (#25797117)
Does anyone outside Signal Foundation know how's their architecture? There are a lot of references to AWS, GCP, and Azure in the source code hosted in GitHub so they probably use them all in one way or another. It would be super interesting know more details about the infrastructure.
Seems to be gaining popularity all around the world. https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1347699781326438404
> Signal doesn't do video calls afaik

False. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007060492-Vo...

> and requires a phone number

Like every other service, but they have plans for alternative methods.

> and still wants me to unfirewall Google Services on Android

False. https://signal.org/android/apk/

For example eavesdroppers know who is speaking at the moment among other nasty issues.
Re:Google AMP – A 70% drop in our conversion rate on Thursday August 09, 2018 @09:28AM (#17723970)
Firefox and uBlock Origin is the only way I'm willing to use a mobile browser.
Re:Disappearing messages for Signal on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:51PM (#12689900)
That's the only big complaint I've got about Signal.