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AWS is having a bad day (health.aws.amazon.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] 79 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I hate how Signal went down because of this... Wish it wasn't so centralised.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    My friend messaged me on Signal asking if Instructure (runs on AWS) was down. I got the message. That being said, it's scary that Signal's backbone depends on AWS

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Why is this scary? That's what e2ee is for, so that no one besides your recipient can view the contents of a message. It does not matter which server is used. If anything for a service like Signal, you want a server with high availability like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud or Cloudflare.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Started moving to Element/Matrix this weekend when I attended a protest and wanted to have some kind of communication, but also wanted to leave my primary phone at home. I was using a de-googled android fork and an e-sim, but being a data-only e-sim, I couldn't use Signal due to the phone number requirement.

    Annoying to have try to get contacts to get another app, but at least it's decentralized and comes with the option of being self-hosted once I'm ready to tackle that.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    @MrMcGasion @Sunny Come to the dark side (xmpp, and jmp.chat) and get decentralized messaging and SMS support with that data-only sim!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    @Sunny@slrpnk.net already has an XMPP account, as that is included in every slrpnk.net account automatically. It is very easy to set that up for most Fediverse software, and the user id is identical between Fediverse and XMPP.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Oh damn i did not even know about this! I will defo have a play around with this tomorrow, how very neat!

    However, it isnt me im really worried about in the grand picture, its family and friends. It was already difficult enough to convert them to using Signal.

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