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by at612 3483 days ago
> It's 2016 and our best crypto messenger options are worse than what we had 10 years ago when Skype was peer to peer, or Jabber with federation.

Actually, Jabber with OTR is pretty solid. If need be, you can use throwaway addresses too.

> I can understand the reasons for not supporting federation, but I disagree.

I disagree and can't understand the reasons, which however I suspect to be rather shortsighted. Just imagine if email had not been what came to be called a federated system.