▲ 192 ▼ There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS (www.theverge.com) submitted 9 months ago by ray@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml 55 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] SwooshBakery624@programming.dev 17 points 9 months ago (2 children) There is - federation. permalink fedilink source hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago (1 child) Or distributed serverless P2P communication (like SimpleX does). Specially when it comes to an app that is just meant for person-to-person communications to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago SimpleX have message relay servers that are required for the sytem to function. It's not "serverless P2P". permalink fedilink source parent [–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago You can run your own signal server and federate it with others, you just can't on the standard app you get from the app store that just talks to the central signal server. It's all open source though so you'd just need to flip some conf flags and compile it yourself. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 15 points 9 months ago (1 child) Or distributed serverless P2P communication (like SimpleX does). Specially when it comes to an app that is just meant for person-to-person communications to begin with. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago SimpleX have message relay servers that are required for the sytem to function. It's not "serverless P2P". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago SimpleX have message relay servers that are required for the sytem to function. It's not "serverless P2P". permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago You can run your own signal server and federate it with others, you just can't on the standard app you get from the app store that just talks to the central signal server. It's all open source though so you'd just need to flip some conf flags and compile it yourself. permalink fedilink source parent