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Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding (kitklarenberg.substack.com)

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[–] kpw@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

All your contacts will still be gone when their servers shut down.

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[–] theherk@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

So? Data permanence isn’t the main idea of Signal.

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[–] kpw@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Now everyone is using WhatsApp again and all energy that went towards convincing everyone to use Signal is lost. A better use of that energy would have been be to promote provider independent internet standards.

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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 2 points 2 years ago

Not in my social circles.

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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

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[–] kpw@kbin.social 1 point 2 years ago

Using the current server distribution of my contacts, I would never loose more than 13% of my contacts if a single server shuts down. Federated systems are much more resilient against providers shutting down as well as takeovers. Think Reddit vs Lemmy, Twitter vs Mastodon, Signal vs XMPP.

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