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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/51866711

Signal was just one of many services brought down by the AWS outage.

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[–] Tiger_Man_@szmer.info -4 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There always is another and better choice and it's called using your own fucking servers

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 3 points 6 days ago

using your own fucking servers

And/or peer to peer mesh. Personally, I WANT a system that has peak performance AND multiple fallbacks to prevent blackout single point of failure situations.

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