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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
    11·
    7 months ago

    I’m assuming all this would do is distribute the cost, but otherwise be the same?

    Exactly. I can locally process the 1-3 messages/day I send on my device rather than having billions of messages processed on a single server.

    I can even host my own encrypted server like Matrix on a $100 machine consuming ~7W and host several hundred users easily.

    • kpw@kbin.social
      3·
      7 months ago

      XMPP maybe. Matrix is a bloated protocol which costs a lot more to host.