Yes, but that’s the case regardless. My message going through has always depended on someone else’s cell towers, all the random routers and switches in between, and the other person’s device.
My server likely has worse uptime, and if I’m hosting from home it probably has more hops to transit through it.
But the same thing is true of both Facebook Messenger and discord and while signal collects nearly no metadata, both FB messenger and discord collect as much metadata as possible.
Sure, the privacy focused company is literally the same as the one who wants to mine everything about you so much that their latest product can’t even go live in EU.
I’m pretty satisfied with simplex at this point, even without self hosting the back end. But I do really like that I can host the server myself if I do get sketched out.
Signal does suck. If you’re not self hosting the server, you might as well just use Facebook or discord
Why? Messages are still end-to-end encrypted.
Your communications going through now depends on someone else’s computers to function.
Yes, but that’s the case regardless. My message going through has always depended on someone else’s cell towers, all the random routers and switches in between, and the other person’s device.
My server likely has worse uptime, and if I’m hosting from home it probably has more hops to transit through it.
But the same thing is true of both Facebook Messenger and discord and while signal collects nearly no metadata, both FB messenger and discord collect as much metadata as possible.
Yes, use selfhosted servers Xmpp, matrix, revolt, jitsi
Sure, the privacy focused company is literally the same as the one who wants to mine everything about you so much that their latest product can’t even go live in EU.
Some arguments please ? Dont just make bold claims.
I’m pretty satisfied with simplex at this point, even without self hosting the back end. But I do really like that I can host the server myself if I do get sketched out.