haha, webshit weekly is glorious again:
> Signal is having technical difficulties
> Signal (business model: "Uber for texting") falls over. Most communications protocols are federated, and would survive one company's servers eating dirt, but Signal's owner/operator has decided this would degrade the user experience, presumably worse than the entire service shitting the bed out loud. Hackernews assumes that Signal is incapable of paying its hosting fees, and comes to the rescue by sending their money to a company that can't spin up cloud nodes fast enough to serve text messages. Other Hackernews bemoan the fact that once again they look like idiots, since they just conned half their friends and family into signing up for this mess.
@khird idk, i have many friends which like it, but i always have hated nearly everything about it. it's a mixture of "ui made for granny" (i really hate it), "tinfoil hat security" (security is bullshit with a mobile os where spooks sit on plethoras of 0days) and "fuck you, love moxie".
i know that matrix may have it's own shortcomings, but they have proven that e2e crypto works in a federated setting. and: don't trust element? build your own client with the reviewed libolm!