It has been a while since I looked at Wire, but self-hosting was unavailable at the time.
I believe they violated their privacy policy a while back, by accepting new owners/investors without notifying their users. That kind of behavior is telling of what to expect from an organization.
I have read complaints that they stored contact lists on the server in cleartext, but I haven’t verified this myself. (No need to spend time on that, since lack of self-hosting was already a dealbreaker for me.)
It has been a while since I looked at Wire, but self-hosting was unavailable at the time.
I believe they violated their privacy policy a while back, by accepting new owners/investors without notifying their users. That kind of behavior is telling of what to expect from an organization.
I have read complaints that they stored contact lists on the server in cleartext, but I haven’t verified this myself. (No need to spend time on that, since lack of self-hosting was already a dealbreaker for me.)
Looks like both the client and server are open source now, so it’s definitely possible to self host. Unlike Signal, Wire also supports federation nowadays https://docs.wire.com/understand/federation/index.html