What If: Signal Was Part of the Fediverse? (signal.org)

submitted 11 months ago by mossy_capivara@midwest.social to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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Anyone else wondering?

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[-] comcreator@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

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 11 months ago

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.