Servers? So it's not decentralized?
SimpleX Chat: New Frontiers – 7/27 at 17:00 UTC
Join us online on Thursday at 10am PT/1pm ET/6pm UK at https://stream.simplex.chat.
We will:
- demo the new desktop app.
- show how to set up SimpleX servers with dual address (public+onion).
- share the plan for SimpleX group and communities.
- possibly, show one more thing.
#OpenSource #Security #Privacy
Discussion
I don't think the existence of servers makes it centralized if you can use more than one at a time and run your own 🤷♂️
It makes it federated (at best), which is a problem solved in the 90s for IM
The comparison section of their white paper is probably worth a skim:
https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplexmq/blob/stable/protocol/overview-tjr.md
Not seeing a reason to switch to it
That's fair! Neither I have to be completely honest
Reason the idea behind is quite good. The fact is its not realy decentralized. Servers normally used all belong to Simplex. User tun servers are not searchable and yet not forming kind of a decentralized network but maybe thats something yet to come
Nostr uses servers
You can run your own server...
I run my own XMPP server. And it's been basically ideal for IM since the 90s.
If SimpleX isn't actually decentralized, what is it trying to solve exactly? 🤨🤷♂️
Relays are decentralised of course