Ask HN: How fragile Signal is as a single point of failure?

- It's a centralized service

- Essentially led by one person - Moxie

What if Signal (its servers, etc) is blocked/shutdown by force?

What if Moxie is detained/etc?

What are the contingency plans, if any?

(Federation is apparently not an option because Moxie has previously ruled out the idea in no uncertain terms)

We might be better off without a centralised service - perhaps you are the one we need, to build a system-to-system app with no need for 3rd party assistance.

It does seem like a huge movement of people are getting behind it. It is a little strange to think we could have an end to end encrypted social graph.

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