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Email exists. When Slack is bought by Google and merged with Hangouts, and WhatsApp changes over to a new all-messages-delivered-by-the-NSA protocol, email wil
by dsr_ 10y ago
Email exists.
When Slack is bought by Google and merged with Hangouts, and WhatsApp changes over to a new all-messages-delivered-by-the-NSA protocol, email will still exist.
- cdelsolar 10y agoEmail that is delivered via a network of NSA-managed servers?
- bdamm 10y agoAnd the web of trust still won't work.
- OJFord 10y ago> When Slack is bought by Google and merged with Hangouts Hah, Google, have multiple messaging systems and bother to merge them?
- davecridland 10y agoAnd XMPP has always tried to be the email of IM. Similar model, address format, and so on. A sea of independent, autonomous domains openly connecting to each other.
- zokier 10y agoSnail mail too exists. And will exist for quite a while still. About as relevant for personal communications as email.
- bluesign 10y agoEmail survived because it is adopted as main identity provider, similar for SMS
- cyborgx7 10y agoI've recently been thinking about xmpp making for a great federated identity provider for multiplayer video games. With communication already built in, initialization of peer-to-peer sessions already a common use-case, and the right XEPs it could replace centralized services like steamworks, psn or xbox-live.