Comment by ericjmorey
2 years ago
Signal has said that they don't want a decentralized network until they have settled on their standard and implementation as they see decentralized federation as what has prevented email from modernizing . I'm assuming they will never get to the point where they feel Signal is stable enough to decentralize.
I'm not sure why people keep responding with this. Signal doesn't want to work on the federated problem, sure, I'm well aware. But everything is open source. We're on a forum of hackers, makers, and programmers. So what is in the way? People keep saying "Signal this" "Signal that", what are they gonna do, stop sourcing the code? Ruin their entire business model? I doubt it. The code is open, so seriously, someone tell me what's stopping you all from creating a federated version?
A) it's already been done. There are forks already.
B) Network effects drive the value of tools that are networked. The forks aren't popular at all.
C) Signal is well funded and not in financial trouble, so they can sustain effort on development and infrastructure.
D) I suspect you already knew all this too. So why did you respond the way you did?