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Is there a reason why Signal is being promoted instead of Wire (wire.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's based on Signal protocol and it's also open source. However, unlike Signal it doesn't harvest phone numbers.

https://github.com/wireapp

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Huh, never really looked into Wire but it seems like its a great option and now im wondering why people bother with signal or matrix if this can do both encryption and federation

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Federation sounded interesting so I looked at the website and it sounds like on prem can't yet federate with people using "cloud" which I guess is the hosted version - they can only federate with other on-prem instances.

It looks promising though and would be cool to host my own instance and still chat with friends.