> An open source infrastructure for a centralized network now provides almost the same level of control as federated protocols, without giving up the ability to adapt. If a centralized provider with an open source infrastructure ever makes horrible changes, those that disagree have the software they need to run their own alternative instead. It may not be as beautiful as federation, but at this point it seems that it will have to do.

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

Except when the single-centralized-point is down ;)

Just as https://status.signal.org/ says, I have a popover text in Signal on the phone that says "Signal is experiencing technical difficulties. We are working hard to restore service as quickly as possible."

In light colored text over a light yellow background, even though Signal is in dark mode. Because no bug report is worth giving if the user isn't gonna find things to complain and nitpick about.

Using DeltaChat in a mirror membership multi-user group chat in the meantime. Got partial success getting peeps to install yet another app last Signal outage, hopefully this will get us over the hill (EDIT) as a basic Signal backup.

As mildy annoying as this is, thank you Signal for all the messaging, picture gallery, and video / audio chat functionality given to me for FREE, without even doing the surveillance capitalism sneaky monetization. I'm also glad they seem to be working on UUID-based chats without requiring phone numbers, which I think is cool.