• adbenitez@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    6 days ago

    tell me how many people are doing it??? do you realize after setting up your server you also need to create a custom app that uses your server and publish that to all stores???

    besides self-hosting Signal is much more expensive than self-hosting Delta Chat, MUCH MORE, and in the end you can not federate with other instances so it is a pain in the back, you would need an app for every instance and group of people you interact with, plain nonsense

    • unixcat@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      6 days ago

      The point is that, if Signal goes bad/evil, someone can just take the code and self host it. I don’t need a federated service. I want a messenger that has powerful end to end encryption with forward secrecy, post-compromise recovery, deniability, and post quantum encryption. Other social media, like Mastodon and Lemmy, don’t have encryption because everything is public anyway, and I value decentralization more about them to avoid political interference and censorship (which are irrelevant on Signal).