Privacy

2795 readers

93 users here now

Icon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Ategon@programming.dev

danielintempesta@programming.dev

135

"We need to go beyond Signal" – How today's AWS outage shows the weaknesses of centralized apps (www.techradar.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

16 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Signal's privacy and security are great, but being a centralized app makes it vulnerable. Element explains to TechRadar why we do need decentralized apps more than ever.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

As it turns out, none of the services I run from my living room NAS or the one that I have hosted on a dedicated machine elsewhere had an issue.

[–] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 13 points 4 days ago

And all three users rejoiced!

Seriously, while self-hosting is an option for some, it's not viable for the vast majority of humanity and unless something revolutionary happens, that's unlikely to change. Ultimately, technology is complex and our dependence on it will continue to create friction.

As it turns out, not every problem has a simple solution.