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> Is "mass adoption by non-tech users" the goal? I would surely hope so. Why bother with installing another "universal communication platform" if you will be o

by kk_cz 9y ago

> Is "mass adoption by non-tech users" the goal? I would surely hope so. Why bother with installing another "universal communication platform" if you will be only able to communicate with a small subset of your contacts. (And all of them will by on skype/whatsapp/whatever-else anyways, since that's where majority of their contacts are as well.)

chriswarbo 9y ago
> Why bother with installing another "universal communication platform" I haven't installed Skype, WhatsApp, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Telegram, etc. precisely because they're proprietary (the client and/or server). Hence I'm already only able to communicate with a small subset of my contacts. Ring looks rather nice as a fancy way to communicate with people, which previously I've been unable to do whilst preserving my freedom (and I prefer freedom over fancy communication tools). Being p2p also makes it more appealing to me than client/server systems, federated or not (which is why I never got around to setting up matrix, for example). In that sense, this is rather like GNU being "yet another Unix".
- kk_cz 9y ago
  Wouldn't you prefer if your free (as in freedom) platform was also user-friendly enough to attract non-tech users though? These don't have to be mutually exclusive.
- EpicEng 9y ago
  That's fine for you, but you're a massive minority. Most of us actually interact with non-profit-making in a daily basis.