Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal
Yet another &quot;Matrix isn&#x27;t mature enough so just give up and use a centralized service&quot; post that completely ignores the fact that XMPP is still alive and kicking.  With multiple independent implementations (both client and server) that all work together pretty decently.<p>We&#x27;re never ever going to tear ourselves away from this death by centralization if we keep inventing excuses for why we don&#x27;t use the federated&#x2F;distributed systems <i>that we already have</i>!<p>Edit:  for those who are interested in using XMPP in 2021, there is a good list of public servers available at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;list.jabber.at&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;list.jabber.at&#x2F;</a> and a list of clients that support modern OMEMO end-to-end encryption at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;omemo.top&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;omemo.top&#x2F;</a>