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Would it be possible for Signal to switch to an European serverless provider? (gregtech.eu)

submitted 2 weeks ago by lena@gregtech.eu to c/signal@lemmy.ml

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Perhaps to one listed at https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/aws-amazon-web-services

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[–] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably. But it shouldn’t matter. Their architecture assume the server is hostile.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the Trump administration could order AWS to shut down signal and presumably they would comply.

[–] DaseinPickle@leminal.space 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

True. Take a look at SimplexChat. It has a distributed architecture and allow people to host their own servers. Might be a good backup, if Signal should ever go down.

[–] lena@gregtech.eu 2 points 2 weeks ago

I prefer Matrix tbh

[–] ujay68@mastodon.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

@lena Someone said this is not possible, at least not trivially. (I cannot confirm if this is true.) https://fosstodon.org/@link2xt/114053089792028947