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There isn’t really another choice: Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS (www.theverge.com)

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[–] coherent_domain 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Moxie Marlinspike mentioned why they decided to build a centrualized service: basically, for rapid update to security protocols and less technical burden for backward compatibility.

https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

Indeed there is decentralized E2EE messenger: https://getsession.org/ and it is quite popular (not close to the popularity of signal, though).