To live up to the standards we set for ourselves, we need to design systems in which self-hosting is structurally possible but not strictly necessary
I use Signal every day and recommend it to others. But, as this post reminds us, for all its state of the art encryption, at the end of the day it's a US-owned, centralised service. What we need is choice built on standards. (In this case, the author suggests, XMPP.)
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