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Cathal (Phone)
cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me
Thu Jan 15 04:35:00 PST 2015
Who said synchronous? It's a chatlike, but this is server-hosted async message and file storage.
Also, the failure of xmpp/jabber to attract the masses in the last decade is no accident.
On 15 January 2015 12:12:26 GMT+00:00, Nikos Roussos <comzeradd at fsfe.org> wrote:
>
>
>On January 15, 2015 1:20:22 PM EET, Cathal Garvey
><cathalgarvey at cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
>>If the server code were open, how would you know the server was
>>actually
>>running that code anyway? Having the protocol documented so thoroughly
>
>>makes the task of writing an alternative server trivial if
>>time-consuming. I'd obviously prefer the server were AGPL, and I hope
>>someone will write an AGPL'd server and federation.
>>
>>For now though, the client is open source, the crypto doesn't suck,
>the
>>
>>UX is excellent, and the threat model is pretty transparent. I'm
>>*never*
>>going to inflict PGP on friends, but I'll happily inflict this on
>them.
>
>Since this is mostly for synchronous communication, you can inflict
>jabber+otr, which has all the benefits you mention above.
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