Comment by neilalexander
6 years ago
Building monoliths (like Signal) is easy and that's a core take-away point of Matthew's response in the blog post. Building Matrix is not and has not ever been a small task, but the effort gives us the freedom to run our own services and still be able to talk with our friends. Matrix is the "long game".
And it's a worthwhile pursuit. Moxie's points simply don't make sense, and are infuriating / disrespectful to those who are working on solving decentralization's issues.
_Of course_ it will be difficult. But the same argument could be made for building a completely unencrypted messenger app. You won't have to worry about managing keys, obfuscating metadata, or anything like that.
At the end of the day, it's about realizing the importance of both privacy _and_ decentralization that our current infrastructure threatens.
He's been anti-complexity for awhile. the matrix ecosystem is far more complex than signal.
> He's been anti-complexity for awhile.
And then he turns around and releases Signal-Desktop based on Electron?!
That complexity is useful and justified.
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