DessalinesA to Privacy • 3 years agoYasha Levine - Signal is a government opyasha.substack.comexternal-linkmessage-square8arrow-up125arrow-down114cross-posted to: privacy
arrow-up111arrow-down1external-linkYasha Levine - Signal is a government opyasha.substack.comDessalinesA to Privacy • 3 years agomessage-square8cross-posted to: privacy
minus-squareDessalinesOPAlink4•3 years agoOne difference is that matrix is self hostable, while signal isn’t. And signal only updates their server source code when they received a massive backlash for not updating it in over a year. https://community.signalusers.org/t/where-is-new-signal-server-code-why-not-share-signal/15068/9 The foss community hates them for good reason.
minus-square@slippointlink0•3 years ago matrix is self hostable, while signal isn’t You can indeed self-host your own Signal server, it’s just that the effort required to do so is significant and it doesn’t federate. Far easier to just use XMPP/Matrix.
One difference is that matrix is self hostable, while signal isn’t. And signal only updates their server source code when they received a massive backlash for not updating it in over a year. https://community.signalusers.org/t/where-is-new-signal-server-code-why-not-share-signal/15068/9
The foss community hates them for good reason.
You can indeed self-host your own Signal server, it’s just that the effort required to do so is significant and it doesn’t federate. Far easier to just use XMPP/Matrix.