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What If: Signal Was Part of the Fediverse? (signal.org)
submitted 1 year ago by mossy_capivara@midwest.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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[–] comcreator@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Matrix is the federated alternative to Signal.

However it would be cool to see Signal implementing their encryption into Matrix and turning Signal into a Matrix provider, becoming a federated messanger.

[–] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe Matrix already supports olm which is the same encryption technique used by Signal. The main issue with Signal becoming federated is that in order to make the federation work, a lot of metadata will leak and that could be a cause for concern when using Signal as a private messenger for important things like whistleblowing, etc.