FiveA to privacy@lemmy.caEnglish · 7 months agoOlvid - Secure Messagingolvid.ioexternal-linkmessage-square8fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down110
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minus-squarewarmaster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·7 months agoIf the server is not FOSS, why even bother with either Signal or Olvid? Wouldn’t a hardened self hosted XMPP server be more trustworthy than some random clown saying their stuff is supposedly secure?
minus-squaresir_reginald@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agoyes. But XMPP is an open standard, it’s not promoted by any corporation and thus it doesn’t have a marketing team. That’s why Signal, Matrix or Olvid are more discussed.
If the server is not FOSS, why even bother with either Signal or Olvid?
Wouldn’t a hardened self hosted XMPP server be more trustworthy than some random clown saying their stuff is supposedly secure?
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yes. But XMPP is an open standard, it’s not promoted by any corporation and thus it doesn’t have a marketing team. That’s why Signal, Matrix or Olvid are more discussed.