Would it be possible for Signal to switch to an European serverless provider?

Perhaps to one listed at https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/aws-amazon-web-services

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DaseinPickle@leminal.space · 7 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Probably. But it shouldn’t matter. Their architecture assume the server is hostile.

lena@gregtech.eu · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Yeah, but the Trump administration could order AWS to shut down signal and presumably they would comply.

DaseinPickle@leminal.space · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

True. Take a look at SimplexChat. It has a distributed architecture and allow people to host their own servers. Might be a good backup, if Signal should ever go down.

lena@gregtech.eu · 2 pts · 1y

I prefer Matrix tbh

ujay68@mastodon.world · 3 pts · 1y

@lena Someone said this is not possible, at least not trivially. (I cannot confirm if this is true.) https://fosstodon.org/@link2xt/114053089792028947