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Funny how the protocols that are federated and distributed (SMS, email) are the ones that stick around forever. You'd think there'd be some lessons to learn fro
by parliament32 6y ago
Funny how the protocols that are federated and distributed (SMS, email) are the ones that stick around forever. You'd think there'd be some lessons to learn from this, but instead we keep getting more walled-garden-style chat apps that keep spawning and dying.
I get it though, it's hard to make money off something that doesn't have vendor lock-in.
- vaduz 6y agoThere is a lesson from that - and it is one of the reasons why e.g. Signal is a walled garden (as a service, not as a protocol): federated systems tend to be really hard to update to a radically different newer version of the protocol. You lose longevity, but gain flexibility if you go walled garden route.
- 0xfaded 6y agoAnd again, my signal friends have moved to telegram.