Unpopular opinion: the silver lining in server outages is that they pull the curtain & reveal some hard truths about who is really behind some services we use... especially stuff we think are alternatives to Big Tech (spoiler: maybe they aren't).
Case in point: last year's #Microsoft outage took out #DuckDuckGo (mashable.com/article/microsoft…).
Today's Amazon's AWS outage took out #Signal in some areas: mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115…
Oh my, is this time to convince my family & friends to move to Matrix? 🥲
Microsoft outage affects Bing, Copilot, DuckDuckGo, and ChatGPT
The company is aware of the issue and working to fix it.Cecily Mauran (Mashable)
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Fabio Pani
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •I set up my very private one for my family: secure, light, fast, open source.
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Thomas Bourdon
in reply to Fabio Pani • • •I also used my own xmpp server for my family. But I switched back to signal because xmpp client doesn't crypt data on client devices.
SimpleX is easy to use like signal and is decentralized (with tor relay). I tried it since weeks but I don't have my family for now. It's hard to make people switching over and over.
The big cons about Signal is it is centralized so it has a single point of failure and can be easily censor.
Fabio Pani
in reply to Thomas Bourdon • • •They **are** truly E2EE with several clients (such as Conversations.im or Monocles Chat) if you enable OMEMO or OTR.
Am I wrong?
Elena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Fabio Pani • •@Fabio Pani @Thomas Bourdon @Elena Rossini ⁂ indeed, all of the recommended xmpp clients (for regular chat¹) support omemo, including conversations, dino-im, gajim, monal and more
¹ xmpp is also used for different applications (IoT, internal communications, etc.) where requirements may be different, and there are clients that are suitable for those, but those are usually not what people mean when talking about xmpp in these contexts.
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in reply to Fabio Pani • • •I've been running that for years now on nerdculture.de without problems.
categulario 🐍 🦀 🦎 🇵🇸
in reply to Fabio Pani • • •Hierarchy
in reply to Fabio Pani • • •Fabio Pani
in reply to Hierarchy • • •About Prosody? No idea, I just read the official doc here: prosody.im/doc
Documentation – Prosody IM
prosody.imHierarchy
in reply to Fabio Pani • • •Fabio Pani
in reply to Hierarchy • • •To give more info of this kind means to lower security of my system.
Anyway, I'm very confident about my instance because:
- default config system of my server is top-level;
- my instance doesn't connect with anyone else (since private and for my own usage).
Stefano Marinelli
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •Show them this, I'm sure you'll convince them: mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/115…
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2025-10-20 08:20:57
Elena Rossini ⁂
in reply to Stefano Marinelli • • •Roberto Guido
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • • •duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help…
Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search - DuckDuckGo Help Pages
DuckDuckGoElena ``of Valhalla''
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂ • •@Elena Rossini ⁂ in my experience¹ self/community hosting an xmpp serivce is much easier² and requires significantly less resources than hosting one's own matrix server, and people I know who use both tell me that the user experience is better on xmpp.
¹ quite a bit of xmpp experience, much less on matrix
² I'd put it in the same category as hosting a static website (running an http server on a bare system, not a managed one), and easier than hosting a fediverse instance.
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