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Skip Signal and move to Matrix before it's too late
- ttyprintk 5y agoOlvid posted to HN before (with little traction): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25543481
- rektide 5y agoSometimes I ask myself, why not email? If we wanted to make an email client that worked like Slack, how & where would using email as the protocol to do so be difficult?
- themk 5y agoTake a look at delta chat. https://delta.chat https://delta.chat
- rektide 5y agoNice. A couple years ago I would be scoffing & trying to push XMPP on folks. It would be neat to see a comparison versus Signal, Matrix, XMPP, & others. Delta Chat could, for example, maybe integrate with another service's voice/video chat. Can Delta Chat do reactions to messages? There's a lot of little questions I have about capabilities, but this sure looks like it covers a lot of the experience very well.
- ttyprintk 5y agoPeople have a problem with Signal: you cannot self-host its server. Sounds like you want to keep the mobile client, swapping out the server underneath. I think you’re better off waiting until Moxie allows setting the remote server, and wrapping the Signal server with the email options you want.