Scenario time: A loved one has recently passed away, and I want to find all the photos I have of them. I would love to be able to have a local AI perform facial recognition to help me find these photos. The classification and tagging info doesn’t get fed into surveillance capitalist garbage, and I’m still able to benefit.
…Signal’s never had federation, though. That’s been one of the biggest sources of criticism toward Moxie’s design decisions for the platform.