It's the software, stupid!
avidamoeba
joined 1 year ago
He is working for Microsoft as be already has been. 🤭
It can be if the off-site duplicate has automatic snapshots.
MS joining the MIC? Shrewd.
A most curious suggestion!
We need Silicon Valley more than ever today. There's so much material.....
Nothing is black and white or pure. The list of features of a large-scale system like this includes its popularity. Signal excels at that compared to many alternatives and personally I think that's worth a few transgressions. I too dream of a P2P system but I can't see how underfunding Signal would help reach that goal. If anything having one popular open source non-profit platform could make it easier to get P2P. For example by pushing the popular platform to implement it.
I upped my monthly sub.
Decentralisation would just spread the costs over more individuals. Those individuals would have to collect contributions from their respective communities. The total amount people who would have to chip in to make the system sustainable won't change dramatically. Decentralisation isn't some magic wand that makes infrastructure and labor costs disappear into thin air.
** checks if hell has frozen **
Their cases are of spectacular quality. They maintain great shape after years of use. My oldest in current service is 4 years old.