Where are messages stored?

What servers do messages get stored on? We take a look at a few competing protocols.

Where are messages stored?

Let’s analyze where things really get stored with different protocols and tools.

Signal:

Amazon

Session:

Decentralized database w/ pay in crypto

XMPP:

Self-hosted federated

the word “federated” means cross-communication of servers like email

Matrix:

federated (in theory)

SimpleX:

two federated self-hosted servers,
they pick your send, you pick your receive

Briar:

No servers, peer-to-peer
They gotta be online

Keet:

Like Briar, it’s peer-to-peer
Unlike Briar, it doesn’t work with Tor, because it’s “holepunching” (connecting) via UDP packets

Nostr:

poster picks distributed relays

Ethereum push.org notifications

This is changing.
Their app is added to MetaMask and fetches it, but where it’s stored is changing.
Now it’s centralized, but in the future they will be spreading it among nodes

IPFS

Torrent CDN getting it from a self-host pinner (host)
IPFS is really a CDN
CDN means content delivey network, or servers all over distributing faster

Akash & Flux

You’re renting servers from their network for your software
The blockchain just keeps track of who owes you service


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