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Consider Matrix instead of Signal.

I would love to. It’s just impractical to onboard my friends.

The Element sign-on workflows have been getting better and better, do note.

But, I think the current exodus will be good for Matrix too in the long term. The big steps is getting people off the megacorps for communication. After that, things will work out.

Isn't matrix just federated? (but still centralized).

Difference being like email. Gmail (or your own matrix server) might go down, but the overall email ecosystem wouldn't.

Federation is enough to avoid single point of failure.

but If on gmail and you are elsewhere, you still cant email me or vice versa.

These are anti-monopolistic practices by Google and should be illegal.

ok, if Im on protonmail and that is down, you still cant email me and vice versa if you are on yahoo mail. Is protonmail monopolistic too ?

I thought you were speaking about Google blocking other domains without a reason. If your domain is offline, then it's your problem. What's the point?

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