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There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 week ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Do you remember when ICQ, AOL, MSN and Skype all used AWS? No? Me neither, because that never happened.

I'm not sure what to make of her statement.

[–] mormund@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well it is hard to say now how these services performed globally. That is her main point. You can build a great self-hosted service in the US and EU, but will it work just as well in [anywhere else]?

Noone could use ICQ on their mobile device either, so that also added a lot of additional challenges.

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are literally ICQ-compatible apps for android, as well as any of those other services which have bothered to keep their servers running. Mobile devices add nothing to server requirements.

[–] mormund@feddit.org 0 points 6 days ago

They do. Without push notifications you are not getting instant messaging when the app is in the background. At that point you could just use email instead.