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Why the stupid downvotes? Signal's walled garden can be its demise.

• jplayer01 7y ago
  Signal is open source. If you want to develop and host your own Signal, go right ahead. You’d just be opening yourself up to the same problem facing the Signal Foundation. As it is, the Signal Foundation would suddenly be open to lawsuits, and they’re the main developers of Signal.
  • mirimir 7y ago
    So don't be discoverable!
  • eeZah7Ux 7y ago
    > If you want to develop and host your own Signal, go right ahead. ...and have an ecosystem of users that cannot communicate with users on Signal. That's what lock-in is and "go right ahead" is just not enough. > You’d just be opening yourself up to the same problem facing the Signal Foundation citation needed