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quandyalaterreux OP wrote

Federated protocol: you have to keep banning IPs

That's something very easy for censors. I mean just look at the Tor Project's bridge distribution, even though there are loads of non-public bridges, China is able to keep up and block virtually all of them. But, domain fronting works in China.

Non-federated protocol: your mobile phone number, which is associated with your real name, is your ID

Federated protocol: your account on a server is your ID

I agree, a phone number isn't the best thing, but a federated protocol is worse since you're giving more metadata by associating your account with a particular instance (e.g. [email protected]).

I don't see how is non-federated better. Best case scenario, they are equally bad.

I think Moxie did a pretty convincing case against it: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/

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