Telegram and Signal are the best we have out of CENTRALIZED solutions. Both are founded by anarchists who like end-to-end encryption and user empowerment. One a

Telegram and Signal are the best we have out of CENTRALIZED solutions. Both are founded by anarchists who like end-to-end encryption and user empowerment. One accuses the other of being less secure and easily backdoored by governments… but the actual problem is — they are both centralized. We don’t even need to resort to conspiracy theories — all Germany would have to do to ban Telegram is make Apple take it out of its app store. And it is coming close to that. Telegram’s Durov also openly said that they respect countries’ laws and censor certain people because to be kicked out of the app stores in that country is worse. What is the decentralized alternative? It takes a lot of work and immunity from the profit motive, to build a viable alternative. Moxie is famously skeptical of decentralization, but it is essential — not just for privacy, but more broadly — for user empowerment and control. If you want to know what the decentralized solutions look like, lease read my answer to Moxie https://community.intercoin.org/t/web3-moxie-signal-telegram-and-why-decentralization-matters/ https://community.intercoin.org/t/web3-moxie-signal-telegram...