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@davidgerard @R3yScale signal groups support 1000 participants, and video chats supposedly will do 75

an idea (no warranty on how good it is) is to use libsignal to implement a signal client with a concept of a signaling group chat, used to implement groups of groups and present them like how discord presents servers and channels. signal’s existing invite URL mechanism can be used both to invite users to the “server” (signaling group chat) and manage channel membership.

“oh ho ho you posted this on mastodon which is the alternative to” get fucked. the open web is burning and you’re jacking off on the flames. the fuck is wrong with you.

hey shitheads who came here to argue: fuck you

that’s it actually, just fuck you

don’t come to this thread to argue. get angry and fucking do something about it. you feel trapped? good. welcome in. it fucking sucks in here.

“can you recommend an alternative?” no. that’s why I’m so fucking angry. we fucked it. we’re no longer capable of making online chat protocols or web browsers or discussion forum software that people actually want to use. it’s all shit. every choice is either proprietary and exploitative or awful open source garbage sucking all the air out of all alternatives and forks, operated by fucking terrible people. we let this happen.

you want there to be an alternative so you can skip being angry too.

@aral @element “no, there are no backdoors” is rich coming from the protocol whose previous end-to-end encryption implementation was effectively a no-op and whose current implementation leaks almost every bit of message metadata and is notoriously unreliable on top of it