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1. Sean O'Brien (diggity@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Nov-2018 00:09:14 UTC Sean O'Brien

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   @philippemargery @61 @Purism Signal isn't "bad". In a nutshell:

   OpenWhisperSystems / the devs behind Signal made the choice to centralize the service and build identity around the phone number system, instead of doing the federated / decentralized approach.

   They did this consciously to encourage widespread adoption without the traditional difficulties associated with a decentralized, multiple-client approach.

   That makes it different from approaches by Matrix.org, XMPP, and so on. 1/2

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   • Sean O'Brien (diggity@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 18-Nov-2018 00:15:50 UTC Sean O'Brien

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     @philippemargery @61 @Purism OWS has had a contentious relationship w/ FOSS devs who want alt. clients/forks of Signal that interop w/ OWS network

     From the OWS perspective, it's important to keep the UI/UX consistent; alternative clients degrade the user experience for everyone on the network, and use expensive resources. Security and QC are impossible to verify for apps out of OWS control

     The FOSS-y arguments are familiar, and include the fact that centralization is dangerous for freedom. 2/2

     Rafael Bonifaz repeated this.