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   by vascocosta 6y ago

   Yes, that's probably the reason, especially the fact that the person on the other side doesn't even need to be aware of Delta Chat. Or maybe we need something like Delta Chat that uses XMPP by default but falls back to email if th
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   by vascocosta 6y ago

   This highlights the fact that there are too many protocols that are essentially reinventing the wheel. The problem isn't necessarily too many clients, but too many transport agents. In a way, they're almost all reincarnations of w
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   by vascocosta 7y ago

   Indeed. I forgot to mention what you just did. Usenet, despite its distributed/federated technical nature, which made the network extremely resilient, centralised the way we searched for information on all sort of different topics. The
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   by vascocosta 7y ago

   Getting a home Internet connection in 1997 I was still lucky enough to enjoy Usenet. Back then I spent the bulk of my time answering emails and Usenet posts, rather than surfing the web or gopher space. The almost identical interface shared