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[–] pkill@programming.dev 50 points 9 months ago (3 children)

This is a centralization problem. Come and force federation upon my SimpleX server in Iceland!

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Indeed. I wish your comment was the most visible here.

Signal and Threema can be all about privacy, but they are still companies which can make money only by keeping their service as centralized as possible.

Decentralised messaging like Matrix, XMPP, Jami, have no issue with interoperability.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You'll be happy to know it's the top comment thread, at least in Sync

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I'm using sync, it's the second top-most for me.

[–] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Signal is developped by a non-profit.

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 1 points 9 months ago

You are right.

[–] berber@lemmy.chaos.berlin 6 points 9 months ago

upvote for SimpleX

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

SimpleX looked pretty intriguing...is it basically a better / private / more secure replacement for IRC?

[–] pkill@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

pretty much, though it's pretty basic in terms of functionality at the moment