Drawbacks of P2P and a defense of Signal
Yet another "Matrix isn't mature enough so just give up and use a centralized service" 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're never ever going to tear ourselves away from this death by centralization if we keep inventing excuses for why we don't use the federated/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://list.jabber.at/" rel="nofollow">https://list.jabber.at/</a> and a list of clients that support modern OMEMO end-to-end encryption at <a href="https://omemo.top/" rel="nofollow">https://omemo.top/</a>