Hawk1291So signal is having technical difficulties due to user influx. Signal didn't want to decentralize because it wanted to be able to continue to provide a reliable exoerience. Yet here they are unable to provide a reliable experience BECAUSE they are centralized.
abandence@Hawk1291 Eh, it's a little more complicated than "decentralised stuff good". It's true that you have to rely on centralised services to be up, outside of your control. But the issue with decentralised services is that it's extremely difficult to move forwards because you have to maintain compatibility with legacy systems. This is why email sucks, and it's (partly) why Matrix sucks.
Arcaik
Urusan@Arcaik @cadence @Hawk1291 My wife is on a different, smaller instance than me, and she has had several really strange technical issues pop up that I wasn't impacted by.
So if they value a consistent user experience, then Signal is right to be concerned.
Of course, when your consistent experience is "down" that's definitely not great.