[rdrey]

Could you flesh out the "federation doesn't scale" argument a bit?

[dropnerd]

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

> So while it’s nice that I’m able to host my own email, that’s also the reason why my email isn’t end-to-end encrypted, and probably never will be. By contrast, WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update. So long as federation means stasis while centralization means movement, federated protocols are going to have trouble existing in a software climate that demands movement as it does today.

[rdrey]

That was interesting, great read, thanks. Following the article's argument the best thing Meta can do is build "metaverse hosting" but open-source the server/client code.

[charcircuit]

If Google required end to end encryption else people's messages go to spam, email administrators would go and update their systems.