@delta By over-reducing your point to “cloud provider bad” you’re circumnavigating a whole informed discussion and effectively spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt to people who don’t understand how signal works at a technical level.
@jaseg well, even signal's president started off by viewing hyperscalers as problematic. We then layed out how we want to address the reliability and uptime challenges (through using cheap relays redundantly). It's tough technical challenges to realize the plans. But discussing infrastructure and different ways than giving 20+ millions to hyperscalers yearly is not FUD.
@delta I'm not saying you don't have a point. I'm not a fan of these providers either, and I think @Mer__edith is uniquely qualified to understand the risks and benefits they have. My issue is with the reductionist view you were broadcasting in the first toot in this series, which didn't go into any of that nuance and read like FUD to me.