Yes, but that’s the case regardless. My message going through has always depended on someone else’s cell towers, all the random routers and switches in between, and the other person’s device.
My server likely has worse uptime, and if I’m hosting from home it probably has more hops to transit through it.
But the same thing is true of both Facebook Messenger and discord and while signal collects nearly no metadata, both FB messenger and discord collect as much metadata as possible.
Why? Messages are still end-to-end encrypted.
Your communications going through now depends on someone else’s computers to function.
Yes, but that’s the case regardless. My message going through has always depended on someone else’s cell towers, all the random routers and switches in between, and the other person’s device.
My server likely has worse uptime, and if I’m hosting from home it probably has more hops to transit through it.
But the same thing is true of both Facebook Messenger and discord and while signal collects nearly no metadata, both FB messenger and discord collect as much metadata as possible.
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