“Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries…”
“Signal is being blocked in Venezuela and Russia. The app is a popular choice for encrypted messaging and people trying to avoid government censorship, and the blocks appear to be part of a crackdown on internal dissent in both countries…”
plenty of servers for both though
Couldn’t they block them too? Monitor the domains people connect to, check if it’s a Matrix server and block it if it is.
for sure and it would end up a game of cat and mouse if they persisted like that, or you could use something blockchain based with a bunch of redundant relays 🤷♂️
You don’t need any blockchain there, you need mixnets and hidden services like with tor and i2p
What would a blockchain provide here?
buzzwords
Overhead
The overwhelming majority of users are on the main servers. It also impacts self hosted Matrix servers that use the matrox.org identity server.