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I think that's called Matrix and we already have that. Anyway, good luck getting Signal to federate with you until you have enough of a user base that they're
by fooqux 4y ago
I think that's called Matrix and we already have that.
Anyway, good luck getting Signal to federate with you until you have enough of a user base that they're losing users to your backend. They have zero reason to want to do this, and it introduces some privacy issues (what if your server doesn't respect deletions, etc?).
- zaik 4y agoWe even had it long before that. It's called XMPP, it's the internet standard for instant messaging and modern clients implement Signal style encryption.
- viccuad 4y agoSignal is just XMPP implementing the Axolotl ratchet. XMPP is just SMTP and some protocol addons on top. SMTP is just FTP with RFC 469 and others. Etc.