- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.ml
“Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries…”
plenty of servers for both though
Couldn’t they block them too? Monitor the domains people connect to, check if it’s a Matrix server and block it if it is.
for sure and it would end up a game of cat and mouse if they persisted like that, or you could use something blockchain based with a bunch of redundant relays 🤷♂️
What would a blockchain provide here?
buzzwords
Overhead
You don’t need any blockchain there, you need mixnets and hidden services like with tor and i2p
The overwhelming majority of users are on the main servers. It also impacts self hosted Matrix servers that use the matrox.org identity server.