[Thorentis]

This is why Signal needs to decentralise. There is no such thing as "leaving the EU market" if it can obtained from anywhere on the internet.

The EU has shot itself in the foot with demanding alternate app store exist, and then Signal has shot itself in the foot by not being open enough to be distributed on any app store by anybody.

The answer to these encryption laws, is to use their other laws against them. You want the iPhone to be an open platform? Great, here's a bunch of open platform chat apps that cannot be banned because they are decentralised.

Perhaps Matrix will be the future after all?

[goodpoint]

> This is why Signal needs to decentralise

They have been building a walled garden for a decade. They talk about "market": they want to make Signal profitable.

[lambdaxyzw]

Right now they live off donations (including mine) and I won't donate if they commercialize. Also, there's no easy way to monetize on users without ads, and I'm pretty sure signal users are one of the last demographics to fall for "privacy preserving ads".

[poisonborz]

Moxie's stance is that "people won't self-host": https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

Which I find very naive and destructive, but that's how it is.