Sips'Oct 20
I hate how Signal went down because of this… Wish it wasn’t so centralised.
Show thread/home/pineappleloverOct 20
My friend messaged me on Signal asking if Instructure (runs on AWS) was down. I got the message
Show threadretroOct 20
Why is this scary? That’s what e2ee is for, so that no one besides your recipient can view the contents of a message. It does not matter which server is used. If anything for a service like Signal, you want a server with high availability like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Cloudflare.
Show thread/home/pineapplelover
Scared because it’s centralized. If Amazon decides that it wants to shut Signal down, they can. Nobody can spin up a Signal instance and help out.
Oct 21 at 3:41amWeb
Show threadNorah (pup/it/she)Oct 21
I would be surprised if Signal didn’t have a contract with another cloud provider as well, incase of this sort of thing.