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What do you think about Session as a potential replacement for Signal? (getsession.org)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Especially for the less tech-savvy among us?

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[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The main turnoff for me is that it is essentially impossible to selfhost - you use random nodes from the network, and to host such a node, you have to lock up a whole fortune (last time I looked I remember it being around $1500, might've changed) in their own cryptocurrency. They do promise returns, but I am skeptical - where would they take so much money to guarantee compensation for everyone within a sane amount of time? They claim it is against a Sybil attack, but it seems to me that it would be a lot easier for a government/company to have more nodes in a situation when "competition" is reduced like this.

[–] zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Selfhosting is kind of hard and labor intensive for some of us; had a lot of trouble trying to set up NextCloud on my QNAP (if that counts as selfhosting), and finally gave up.

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 4 points 4 days ago

Fair - I was referring to the fact that here it isn't even an option.

Also, XMPP or Simplex are very easy to set up, Nextcloud is indeed more complicated.