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[return to "Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive"]
1. ActorN+v9[view] [source] 2023-11-16 16:58:25
>>mikece+(OP)
Has anyone tried setting up their own Signal server? Be cool to do this, and then give all your friends the ip for truly private messaging.

https://github.com/signalapp

Seems like all their stuff is open source.

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2. kyawza+R9[view] [source] 2023-11-16 16:59:57
>>ActorN+v9
unlikely the people i want to talk will bother setting this up
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3. Aachen+Fz[view] [source] 2023-11-16 18:48:53
>>kyawza+R9
And the people those friends want to talk to. And the friends of those friends.

To have self-hosted chat services, you either need a niche enough service that you'll never have two parties that would want to talk to each other while being on different servers, or federation. Signal chose the former, so here I am with eight communication apps on my phone.

Maybe the next best thing could be to support multiple servers, like how email clients let you fetch data from more than one email provider, if they're so worried about federation inhibiting their ability to control the ecosystem that they plainly won't go there and hold speeches about how harmful that situation would be. Then we could have self hosting and also Signal wouldn't have to care about federating with my self-hosted server.

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