How fragile Signal is as a single point of failure?

Question

- It's a centralized service- Essentially led by one person - MoxieWhat if Signal (its servers, etc) is blocked/shutdown by force?What if Moxie is detained/etc?What are the contingency plans, if any?(Federation is apparently not an option because Moxie has previously ruled out the idea in no uncertain terms)

poormystic · Accepted Answer

We might be better off without a centralised service - perhaps you are the one we need, to build a system-to-system app with no need for 3rd party assistance.

sbinthree · Answer

It does seem like a huge movement of people are getting behind it. It is a little strange to think we could have an end to end encrypted social graph.