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It may be the server code that is or was unavailable. The app has always been open.

• 0xdeadb00f 7y ago
  Server code is available, but you can't run your own server and communicate with the rest of the Signal users. (Federation isn't possible with this protocol, which kind of sucks).
  • jraph 7y ago
    If I understood correctly, the Signal protocol can be federated (and actually, I just learned that Signal was federated in the past with servers managed by Cyanogenmod between 2013 and 2016), but Moxie does not believe federation is a good thing for Signal. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_%28software%29#Federation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_%28software%29#Federati...
  • maksim-m 7y ago
    > Federation isn't possible with this protocol, which kind of sucks Moxie has a blog post explaining why Signal won't support federalization: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ "After three weeks, sealed sender now represents over 80% of overall Signal messaging traffic." https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1075918894521495552 https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1075918894521495552 This would be impossible to achieve with federated protocol.