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But email relies on free and open source standards while instant messaging is a walled garden that relies on closed protocols by some shady corporations that se
by fxj 8y ago
But email relies on free and open source standards while instant messaging is a walled garden that relies on closed protocols by some shady corporations that sell your data.
- Spivak 8y agoCompared to... a walled garden that relies on secret algorithms written by shady corporations that sell your data.
- gregknicholson 8y agoXMPP and Matrix (and arguably ActivityPub) are open specifications for IM, each with multiple interoperable implementations. (I'm counting mxhsd as a 2nd implementation of a Matrix server; I accept that it isn't mature yet.)