> [M]ost people don't care about decentralization but they do care about the effects it brings. I’ve tried pointing those out as bluntly as possible as an expe

> [M]ost people don't care about decentralization but they do care about the effects it brings. I’ve tried pointing those out as bluntly as possible as an experiment. As in “well, surprise, locked-in crap with impenetrable failure modes locks you in and is impenetrable when it fails, you signed up for that”. People didn’t appreciate it, as I expected, but they did seem to recognize the truth of it. That is, the response was along the lines of being forced to use the thing to communicate with some person or institution, not of liking it or thinking it’s not at fault. I don’t know how one would use this to organize an IM revolt (Riot? sorry), but there does seem to be at least some fuel for it even among people who are not outright IT professionals. > RCS messaging is a great example which I think most people would use over alternatives like WhatsApp and iMessage [...]. RCS might make a slight amount of sense in a culture that still uses SMS / texts in non-negligible amounts, but that’s basically North America and Japan AFAIU? And I prefer that territory shrink, not grow, as I’m very much not thrilled by the idea of handing back over detailed control over IM—even just billing, not content—to phone carriers. Whatever the country, they have extensive history proving they can and will screw you for decades unless you can leave, and it will take everybody leaving for them to stop.