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But have you tried to move any users over to, "wechat and signal and telegram and whatever"? Getting users onto your own system wasn't trivial. If you want to m

by zamnos 4y ago

But have you tried to move any users over to, "wechat and signal and telegram and whatever"? Getting users onto your own system wasn't trivial. If you want to move to a more supported system like, say, Signal, then you have to pay the platform switching costs, which includes moving your group of people. Which involves having the social capital to do so, which is unfortunate for the less social of us. There are many things that killed what the Internet was in the 20-30 years hence. IPv4 exhaustion is regrettable, but entirely predicted, and for those in the west, not a huge deal. I can pay any number of cloud providers a small fee to host me a box with a publicly routable IPv4 address. CGNAT is annoying, but the number of libraries which will punch a hole in that NAT has also expanded by a huge margin since the 90's. So those up things are unfortunate, but I think there are many other things that changed the Internet, some for the better, some for the worse.

genewitch 4y ago
> But have you tried to move any users over to, "wechat and signal and telegram and whatever"? no, because everyone uses something different and there's no "trillian" or meebo for all the shiny-tech. If we're going to play "encrypted chat", that no one can agree what that means, or what service to use, may as well use my own. Hopefully matrix becomes more popular (it probably won't, unfortunately*), but if not, i still won't use the likes of telegram or FB messenger or tiktok DMs or anything of that nature. there's not a good IRC client for phones, last few times i checked over the past 15 years. * Matrix has the curse of being good enough on the client side, but kind of a PITA on the server side. Synapse, the reference implementation is in python, which is single threaded, so joining a large room "as-is" out-of-the-box is not feasible. You have to split each of the synapse elements into a microservice that gets its own python instance, but the documentation was (and probably still is) quite sparse. I'm sure there's a discord where i can get help.

by zamnos 4y ago

genewitch 4y ago

> But have you tried to move any users over to, "wechat and signal and telegram and whatever"? no, because everyone uses something different and there's no "trillian" or meebo for all the shiny-tech. If we're going to play "encrypted chat", that no one can agree what that means, or what service to use, may as well use my own. Hopefully matrix becomes more popular (it probably won't, unfortunately*), but if not, i still won't use the likes of telegram or FB messenger or tiktok DMs or anything of that nature. there's not a good IRC client for phones, last few times i checked over the past 15 years. * Matrix has the curse of being good enough on the client side, but kind of a PITA on the server side. Synapse, the reference implementation is in python, which is single threaded, so joining a large room "as-is" out-of-the-box is not feasible. You have to split each of the synapse elements into a microservice that gets its own python instance, but the documentation was (and probably still is) quite sparse. I'm sure there's a discord where i can get help.