This is where Signal’s biggest problem shows. It’s centralized. Matrix is the better choice since it will be up to you if you decide to break the law if it’s banned, since there will still be plenty of servers you can reach.

Many of Yandex’s employees resigned in protest, accusing the company of serving as a tool of Kremlin propaganda and actively concealing information about the war.

https://www.zois-berlin.de/en/publications/zois-spotlight/the-sad-fate-of-yandex-from-independent-tech-startup-to-kremlin-propaganda-tool

… if you configure to use their lookup server.

I don’t consider those comments regarding Matrix as problematic. Don’t use someone else’s server if you don’t trust them - including a third party lookup server.

/selfhosting Matrix

Just clarifying for the ones who don’t know: Element is a Matrix client.

Firefox with plugins. If we want there to be anything but Chromium and Safari in the future it’s simply what needs to be done. Forks of Firefox will disappear when Firefox does …

if I compile mtproto self from github

You didn’t understand why I quoted that part the first time around. Let’s try it again.

Yeah I am a cryptographer, reverse engineer and (whitehat) hacker. I’m also well versed in the russian influence operations having run rampant in the west for a bit more than a decade.

The Telegram-supporters are out in force right now specifically to make sure people keep using Telegram, believing it to be secure. Russia has already made used of their backdoors against Ukraine in the war.

Russia banning Signal now was a huge blunder, since that proves there’s nothing in Telegram they don’t have access to, having allowed it to keep operating.

“Access to the Signal messaging app is blocked in connection with violation of the requirements of Russian legislation which must be complied with to prevent the use of messaging apps for terrorist and extremist aims”

• Roskomnadzor

Russian authorities began to block access to Telegram, a widely used messaging app, in 2018. The action interrupted many third-party services, but had little effect on the availability of Telegram in Russia.

• Reuters

Your .ru domain makes your comments in this discussion meritless.

custom self compiled clients

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Not “somehow”. The authorities know Telegram can indeed backdoor their service, since they know it already is. They also know Signal cannot.

Thus, since Telegram can but refuses, he gets arrested.

Russia banned Signal, but not Telegram, to make sure their citizens couldn’t plan any subversive activities against the state.

That’s all we needed to know for sure.

Just don’t make a new install with Dendrite - it’s not really supported anymore. And no automated automation for us who do have Dendrite servers …

Synapse if you plan to go large, otherwise Conduit, would be my recommendation.

The EU has made it very clear for a while now that European organizations cannot rely on American clouds or SaaS-providers. It’s perfectly possible to go without - it just means a lot of IT-orgs who have relied on having a career “in Microsoft” need to update their skillset.