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I understand what you're saying but I don't know if calling it vendor lock in is quite correct. You can export your list of messages out of Signal and presumabl
by Caligatio 6y ago
I understand what you're saying but I don't know if calling it vendor lock in is quite correct. You can export your list of messages out of Signal and presumably import them to whenever you motivated to do so. Your friends could then join you on the new service and life would continue on.
I am personally unaware of any communication service with a universally portable user identifier and that allows you to freely switch upstream providers other than phone service. I think this what you're talking about?
- names_are_hard 6y agoWell... yes, email and sms and telephone. They're protocols that anyone can decide to support and participate in. Honestly SMS was a good solution for my needs for 1:1 messages, it just didn't properly evolve to support the f a featureset we expect from modern messaging.
- Caligatio 6y agoI was actually thinking about this before I posted and discounted email. It has high interoperability but you cannot move your email address to a different provider if you didn't opt to use a domain you owned. This is obvious when you say it but I can port my phone number between phone companies whereas I cannot move my Gmail address to a different email provider.
- Evidlo 6y agoYou can see some proposals for server migration/fallback here: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/915 https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/issues/915