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

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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.

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 27 points 4 days ago

When Reddit was down, most (all?) Lemmy and Piefed instances were still up. Aside from the number of users currently on the platform, I don't see any significant ways that Lemmy is worse for the average user than Reddit.