Couldn't agree more. This is why I would like a federated service. Right now I'm testing riot as well, but it was such a hassle to get people to use signal that

Couldn't agree more. This is why I would like a federated service. Right now I'm testing riot as well, but it was such a hassle to get people to use signal that I didn't even want to start to try to persuade people to try it with me. It's really annoying that I still use more than one messenger (xmpp, riot, signal, irc), but at least I can still communicate with some of my peers. Back to the signal topic my first thought was that they just didn't have time to react yet since it's before 4am in the US, but they changed the DNS entry of the signal gateway so I guess it's maybe a DDOS? First people are asking for a service page https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7461 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/7461 Anyway it's up again. Hopefully there will be a writeup