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Store-and-forward messaging can be implemented on top of many networks: Internet, local wifi, bluetooth, usb drives, LoRa, and many more.
Why bundling together UI, message routing and network backends?
Why can't we go back to layered software design?
The "worker owned" part repeated several times sounds like a shot at communisms or kibbutz, that will drive some people away.
...and it will also attract other people, including:
- other coops, that want to support each other
- people who are not happy with the increasing inequality
- customers who want to have the ear of decision-makers within the organization. In a privately owned company the owners are often far removed from the customers - even in a medium sized company. In a coop, the employee that replies to your email has far more power to convey your needs to the rest of the company.
Great, leaking the user's email address which, more often than not, contains their real name is so much better. /s
Thankfully getting unlimited anonymous phone numbers easy and free /s
Unlike unlimited anonymous email addresses /s
Please stop repeating the "testosterone==aggressiveness" falsehood. There isn't a 1:1 correlation. Humans are way more complex than that.
thus natural selection drives testosterone down
Also you are implying that natural selection is currently existing in human society. It does not.
...and that such selection works so fast that it changes human genome within a generation of two. This is simply impossible.
The fact that Delta Chat is catching on is a sad reflection on the state of the IM tools and protocols.
Compare to most IM systems Delta Chat is:
- easier to set up: you already have an email
- equally private: most IM systems leak metadata anyways. A global observer can infer your peers.
- compared to Signal, it does not snoop your phone number
- decentralized
- cheaper to run 1: managing mailservers is cheaper than managing both mailservers and IM servers
- cheaper to run 2: mailservers evolved for decades and are now pretty efficient, especially compared to most IM servers