@Aaron 😂😂😂😂😂 the irony burns
@jerry @Aaron@boringpeople.org what we really need is a way to securely send e-mail.
People will continue to send e-mail. There is no way this goes away antime soon. People will send sensitive stuff via e-mail.
We can spend time discussing just how exactly people should not use e-mail, or we can build a system that works.
I like the ideas behind PEP and AutoCrypt. I'd like to see them implemented in more clients.
@jerry @rysiek @Aaron
I have a feeling that right now, SMTP has the biggest adoption of all federated messagning protocols, and the second place is far far behind. Of all the new communication protocols I've seen recently, they're either popular, or federated, not both. And trying to get your new protocol adopted not just by people for their private communications, but also by companies, govts, and orgs for their internal and external communication is going to be extremely hard.
@Wolf480pl @jerry @Aaron@boringpeople.org there is some hope in the p2p world.
BitTorrent is not exactly a "messaging" protocol, but got immensely popular.
FireChat, a p2p messaging app, got very popular during protests in Romania. Sadly it's proprietary, so I'd stay far away from it.
Briar doesn't need any introduction in this group, methinks, but is not popular at all... yet.
But, messaging and e-mail are two different things. It's not just about sending the message. It's about the infra around it.
@Wolf480pl @jerry @Aaron@boringpeople.org what I mean by infra around it is: pretty much every single other on-line service and their dog will communicate with you via e-mail.
If we get a system that can plug-into this seamlessly, it might work.
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