@Mer__edith upfront: i do highly value your work, both personally and that of the whole signal team. you are doing a great service to society!
also, i have not run signal's infrastructure, but i have run ISPs until 2008 and am still helping various clients deliver their serices. i will
not mention any names, but you know many of them. i might know a little bit about scalable software… 🧵
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@Mer__edith @Binder As I read through the thread my first thought was to convert these infrastructure systems into government-managed utilities. Of course, that would deter innovation and efficiency. Which leads me to development of utility regulations required for infrastructure systems allowing competition and profits, perhaps with some government investment equally spread across the competitive systems.
@Mer__edith Very insightful thread. Thank you for clearing this out. Unfortunately AWS is almost a necessity these days for scaling application
@Mer__edith Yeah and this is why when there's something with a use case similar to what #Signal is intended for, I always ask if it's #P2P.
@Mer__edith Thanks for the honest and thorough explanations! 🙏
While reading it, I was already afraid of the responses you would receive and they were partly confirmed.
Keep up the great work 👍
@Mer__edith how’s people comparing Signal to Mastodon? Or their own self-hosted service, software or whatever? How people cannot understand the privilege they have to know how and being able to run a self-hosted service?
@Mer__edith Thank you for the explanation. I support Signal.
This situation shows that more people should support EU companies whenever possible, rather than large corporations. We need alternatives for various services and must take small steps in this direction https://european-alternatives.eu/
@Mer__edith ,Wait, how does Threema work, for example?
@Mer__edith There are other options, others are doing it. Using AWS, GCP and Azure is a *choice*. You *can* technically build without them. It would also probably cost less. This is a political choice you are making.
@FreakyFwoof @Mer__edith I knew there was a reason I didn't ever use signal. lol
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Thank you for the thread. It’s honest and straightforward, making it a perfect example of “privacy is a luxury” and not aligning with mass processing..
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It is, to me, even more concerning how no one (none of our elected deciders anyway) seem to realise how powerful the #clubofoligarchs is. None of any nations matter at all when said club decides to (seriously) *use* that power.
Seem to be a different topic? Imho nope.
This AWS incident🤨 shows what *could* happen, giving just a glimpse of it.
looking at your replies to replies here that seem to make sense to me (especially re decentralization), you're telling them they don't know what they are talking about. well I definitely don't.
like with debates re #ATproto and #ActivityPub, I have thoughts but I know that we really need to see the experts debate each other somehow. I don't think it happens enough. so I'd say the same re #signal and #matrix etc.
@Mer__edith Thank you for layout this out and continuing to school us. What do you think is the major first solution to end this concentration in computing power - anti-monopoly reforms?
@Mer__edith interesting engagement levels across different sites.
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