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Early signalⓘEvidence tiers: Early signal = 1 uncorroborated request — treat as radar, not a validated opportunity · Corroborated = 2-3 requests · Validated = 4+ requests from 2+ different people. Every count appears exactly once, in the fact bar below — each traces to a real source post.
Decentralized Chat Servers
In their words
"I don't want to move my chats onto a server I control myself, with proper end-to-end encryption isn't the quote, the best one is: With the whole EU Chat Control debate going on, I've decided I want to move my chats with friends and family onto a server I control myself" — a builder, verbatim · sign in free to trace the source ↗
What they tried & dropped
Extracted word-for-word from the evidence posts below — every item is quoted verbatim from a real builder.
XMPP
— (no stated shortcoming)
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Hard requirements
Non-negotiables stated by builders in their own words. Miss one and they will not switch.
self-hostedend-to-end encryption
Competitor pricing
Named rivals & real prices 🔒
Rivals charge $3/mo · names — log in ↗
How we checked
Where we searched
3 sources · GitHub (open-source check) · App Store · SaaS marketplaces
Verification funnel
43 raw matches scanned, then AI-de-duped · see the breakdown below
Last scan
15d ago · auto-refreshed every 30 days
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Every source post · named rivals with real prices · what builders tried & dropped · quantified pain — all traceable to the original posts
Sign up free →Signal history
2 posts on record since Jul 2026 — not enough to plot a trend. We plot history once a gap has 3+ posts spanning 3+ weeks.
Evidence pool
1 source post on record — each insight links back to a real one.
1 reddit