[Web Feed] As you???re surely aware, Signal has officially jumped the shark with the intro...

..duction of cryptocurrency to their chat app. Back in 2018, I 



As you’re surely aware, Signal has officially jumped the shark with the introduction of cryptocurrency to their chat app. Back in 2018, I wrote about my concerns with Signal, and those concerns were unfortunately validated by this week’s announcement. Moxie’s insistence on centralized ownership, governance, and servers for Signal puts him in a position of power which is easily, and inevitably, abused. In that 2018 article, and in articles since, I have spoken about the important of federation to address these problems. In addition to federation, what else does a chat app need?




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What should the next chat app look like?: https://drewdevault.com/2021/04/07/The-next-chat-app.html