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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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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 6 days ago

Scale in decentralization is about self hosting multiple instances. Signal’s infrastructure relied on centralized components, which allowed this weakpoint to occur. I am showing even weaker more decentralized protocols succeeded to “scale” because they scattered their resources tactically.

database

yeah, that's not decentralization.

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