> But until any of these new age apps/platforms support federation and decentralized communication, there's not much use for the masses to look for servers run

> But until any of these new age apps/platforms support federation and decentralized communication, there's not much use for the masses to look for servers run by specific people. Federation of self-hosted servers and the "official cloud" seems to be on Wire's road-map, cf: * Third paragraph of OP * https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/5vylls/wire_endtoend_encrypted_messaging_app_announced/de7lb72/?context=2 https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/5vylls/wire_end... * Last sentence on https://medium.com/@wireapp/open-sourcing-wire-server-code-ef7866a731d5 https://medium.com/@wireapp/open-sourcing-wire-server-code-e...