We can do better than Signal
I&#x27;m a bit annoyed at &quot;we can do better than X&quot; when, you know what? Maybe we can&#x27;t.<p>Yes, it&#x27;s nice that you and I can install Element and deal with the finicky crypto handshake that for some reason always shows red for me because a friend opened the web UI and closed it before he completed the handshake and now we can never actually make that check go green, and it&#x27;s nice that Mastodon is distributed but mastodon.host went down one day with all my toots without a word from the administrator, and yeah I know I should have picked a better host (though if you could predict that mastodon.host will die why didn&#x27;t you tell me?), but my mom can&#x27;t.<p>Users value their convenience, and security and privacy are inconvenient. Hell, we <i>started</i> decentralized and over email and newsgroups and personal websites and blogs and it&#x27;s all Facebook Facebook Facebook now that the Eternal September came around.<p>If we could do better, we would have done better by now.