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Wait, Skype ain't p2p anymore?

• fami-com 4y ago
  Hasn't been for almost a decade at this point. The p2p protocol was deprecated in mid-2014.
  • raxxorraxor 4y ago
    Skype is also pretty much dead now. So the centralisation argument doesn't really benefit from Skype as an example.
• dane-pgp 4y ago
  Here is a series of headlines that give the best explanation of this architectural change that I've ever seen: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411779 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18411779
• px43 4y ago
  Microsoft bought it, removed the encryption and decentralization, and started piping conversations directly to the NSA.
  • pshc 4y ago
    Yup, honestly this is a good argument for web3 as a substrate on which to build an encrypted chat app that's permanently decentralized and owned/funded by the community. (Once someone figures out the encrypted privacy aspect...)
    • mlok 4y ago
      This is coming to Matrix : https://arewep2pyet.com/ https://arewep2pyet.com/
      • px43 4y ago
        Woah, this happened almost two years ago and somehow I missed this. I need to get more active on Matrix again.