I suppose "only I can do security right" is perhaps overly harsh, but my take away was that he considered a walled garden that could be iterated on by his team preferable to allowing even forks of his team's own client to communicate with users on the OWS network.
>Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all.
Moxie is probably annoyed by the slow pace in which federated protocols move. Having it centralized he can move it a lot faster.
Fortunately there are solutions that incentivize modern features in federated protocols too, like SSLLabs HTTPS checker or https://conversations.im/compliance/ for XMPP.
https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
https://whispersystems.discoursehosting.net/t/how-to-get-sig...
https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
I suppose "only I can do security right" is perhaps overly harsh, but my take away was that he considered a walled garden that could be iterated on by his team preferable to allowing even forks of his team's own client to communicate with users on the OWS network.