Notices by iameli (iameli@iame.li)

@atomicpoet @chetwisniewski Worth pointing out that part of the reason for Whatsapp’s dominance in that area is they released the Whatsapp app for dirt-cheap feature phones for people that don’t have any other option. Accessibility is everything

@atomicpoet @chetwisniewski Haha yeah I’m pretty okay with “once you have a billion users these different rules kick in”

@atomicpoet @chetwisniewski I’m in favor of there being lots of Signals! Whatsapp, Session, and OG Signal are three of many. I’m just not certain those Signal instances should federate with each other. My intuition tells me that’d open up a whole new class of potential vulnerability.

Federation while exchanging zero information about your users is hard. Not sure if even ZK blockchains promise that to their users.

@atomicpoet @chetwisniewski Disagree. https://twitter.com/claucece/status/1575155649314697216?s=46&t=G_M8-tp7Eg4Xt7r1rIhzpw

Signal is an order of magnitude more secure than Matrix by being substantially less ambitious - 1/1 deny able secure chat exclusively. I can imagine a lot of ways federation would cut down on security, especially around deniability.