• woelkchen@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      Good luck setting up your own server and convincing everybody else to use that.

      Signal is not federated. It relies on a central server, meaning for all intends and purposes Signal controls the entire chain.

      • Zetta
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        5 days ago

        End to end encrypted, I think chat control is all about client-side scanning so the app being open source is a big deal and would prevent client-side scanning because even if they build in client-side scanning, it’s open source and people can remove it.

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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          5 days ago

          Signal is pretty control freak-y, so would not be surprised if they can somehow prohibit third-party modifications entirely. That would be out-of-character for them, though, so doubt they would actually go through with this.

          Still, if that went through, I’d discount all the centralized solutions.