I don't get the down-votes on this comment either. (Other then maybe HN is not really the place where folks like to "leave things alone...".) Email is a fact

I don't get the down-votes on this comment either. (Other then maybe HN is not really the place where folks like to "leave things alone...".) Email is a fact of life and it is not going anywhere, but in general I would prefer communicating over the Matrix protocol. There is plenty of innovation and development still needed in the messaging space, but continuing to view email as the core technology to build on top of is unnecessarily limiting. (Note that this is not a criticism of the Shortwave team as we all need great email clients! I am just concurring that there are protocols that are fundamentally better than email...)