“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…”

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Matrix is in fact decentralized but in reality it is not so much, I don’t know the number exactly but the majority of users use the matrix.org server

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Those numbers only include instances that have telemetry enabled

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Do you have numbers without?

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How would you?

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People who live in countries where DNS and IP blocks are common probably use a different server. I’ve been running my own for over a year and it works like a dream

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