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by lrvick 1987 days ago
Remember this is a centralized service, and all centralized services are doomed to fail for short periods or forever.

If you believe control of the world's communications should be open and distributed, I suggest supporting Matrix instead.
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7v3x3n3sem9vv 1987 days ago
It would be more accurate to state that *all services are doomed to fail for short periods of forever* which ultimately means nothing. Everything will fail at some point, even your chosen decentralized service.

I do agree that decentralized is the way forward, but there's no way I'd ever ask my grandma to install Matrix.

Matrix is a Discord/IRC replacement - a significantly better alternative! But let's not delude ourselves into thinking it's going to replace text/SMS, which is the primary use case for WhatsApp/Signal.

I can send my grandma a link to Signal, and she would be able to get it working, and I'm already in her contacts! There's no way I'd attempt the same with Matrix/Riot/Element/Fluffy chat.

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