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Does anyone outside Signal Foundation know how's their architecture? There are a lot of references to AWS, GCP, and Azure in the source code hosted in GitHub so they probably use them all in one way or another. It would be super interesting know more details about the infrastructure.
Seems to be gaining popularity all around the world. https://twitter.com/signalapp/status/1347699781326438404
Signal doesn't do video calls afaik
False. https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007060492-Vo...
and requires a phone number
Like every other service, but they have plans for alternative methods.
and still wants me to unfirewall Google Services on Android
For example eavesdroppers know who is speaking at the moment among other nasty issues.
Firefox and uBlock Origin is the only way I'm willing to use a mobile browser.
That's the only big complaint I've got about Signal.