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Well, I suppose the ecosystem is moving [1], and now the ecosystem has moved to stories. If you had asked your friends to get a Matrix client instead (eg. Elem
by jakecopp 4y ago
Well, I suppose the ecosystem is moving [1], and now the ecosystem has moved to stories.
If you had asked your friends to get a Matrix client instead (eg. Element), at least you'd be able to move to a new client [2] if you didn't like the direction it moved in - and you'd still have your group chats and keep your contacts because it's federated.
Unfortunately you're now stuck with stories (or maybe crypto payments one day [3]) because Signal doesn't federate, and likely never will, and the amount of effort to ask your friends to move _again_ is just too big.
This is _exactly_ the argument I make when friends ask why Matrix over Signal. I'm exhausted of picking up and moving again.
[1]: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/ https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
[2]: https://matrix.org/clients/ https://matrix.org/clients/
[3]: https://www.xda-developers.com/signal-crypto-payments-feature-worldwide-rollout/ https://www.xda-developers.com/signal-crypto-payments-featur...
- npteljes 4y agoI hate that protocols became so tightly bundled to client implementations. It's like if the WWW could only be browsed by Chrome. Really unfortunate (for the public) that IM protocol standardizations died over time (FB and Google dropping XMPP for example). Matrix shows some promise with larger adopters like the French government. I'm rooting for them to succeed even more.
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