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A federated protocol freezes in time, so a messenger that has to keep up with the ecosystem cannot be federated.
Drawn from what Moxie Marlinspike said
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- Moxie Marlinspike Cryptographer who created the Signal Protocol and founded Signal
Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all.
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↗Reflections: The ecosystem is movingsignal.org
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