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Because federation is seriously difficult — look at all the effort the Matrix team has put in, and it’s still not quite 100%. Plus yes Signal has a bit of an N
by cvwright 4y ago
Because federation is seriously difficult — look at all the effort the Matrix team has put in, and it’s still not quite 100%.
Plus yes Signal has a bit of an NIH complex.
- admax88qqq 4y agoMatrix federation is hard because they want to support large IRV style rooms with consistent history and strong controls to prevent room takeovers. Signal is more focused on 1:1 or small group chats. Federation there can be much simpler, more like email/xmpp than IRC. It does still add friction and slows down youe development as upgrading is difficult.
- saynay 4y agoSignal also has a grand total of 40 employees. Keeping the application running on the various platforms takes a decent chunk of their time. Difficult development to add something like federation cannot be expected to happen quickly.