The paradox is that Macaroni Messenger is absolutely a joke project. But once you reduce everything to Git + JSON, adding things like PGP, age, signatures, enc

The paradox is that Macaroni Messenger is absolutely a joke project. But once you reduce everything to Git + JSON, adding things like PGP, age, signatures, encrypted attachments, or end-to-end encryption becomes surprisingly easy. Which makes it even funnier. At first glance it looks like a toy. After a few minutes you start asking: “Wait… why does this actually make sense?” I think the protocol is a bit underestimated. People see the joke before they see the architecture. There are some surprisingly interesting properties hiding behind the absurdity. Maybe it’s a hidden gem. Or maybe I’m just rationalizing a messenger implemented as a single HTML file.