What's the purpose of signal? Is it taking over the world or providing a service...

sa1 · on Feb 4, 2021

There are lots of purposes but dismantling mass surveillance is a major one. This requires 'taking over the world'.

fourthark · on Feb 4, 2021

... Creating a central point of failure / censorship?

TedDoesntTalk · on Feb 4, 2021

Yeah so this latest attempt seems to want to “fix” that.

“Hey, let’s distribute connections (proxy servers) to our central point of failure so that we can get around the central point of failure. Genius!” /s

im3w1l · on Feb 4, 2021

They want to have a monopoly on points of failure. We can censor but no one else.

eeZah7Ux · on Feb 4, 2021

Creating yet another walled garden.