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as a reminder, this is just the desktop version not Android.

good catch. this kind of technical analysis makes signal a stronger application. now if only someone could convince Marlinspike to get off his high horse and de-centralize the service.

AWS is a terrible host. its all too willing to de-platform, as was evidenced when Senator Joe Liebermann politely requested they de-platform Assange and Wikileaks.

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very, very early on in Signal, back when it was still called TextSecure, they did actually federate with other servers, in particular with servers run by CyanogenMod (predecessor of LineageOS, briefly a commercial startup, now defunct).

https://signal.org/blog/cyanogen-integration/

It seems like this was a very bad experience for Open Whisper Systems which is why they don't like decentralization.

Maybe the arguments for and against have changed since then.

But it's not like they just refuse to try it for no reason.

Moxie wrote about why they stopped: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

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