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by antisocialist
1282 days ago
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Yes, it's got critical mass. I haven't looked at Telegram's blockchain thing yet, but the non-blockchain version is not very private (and the same applies to Signal). xx Messenger (https://elixxir.io/; source https://git.xx.network/elixxir/) has very solid encryption, metadata protection and decentralized gateways. But it's less polished, blockchain-based, and has few users. People complain about the use of blockchain in messengers, but they offer no solutions on how to address app sustainability or eliminate metadata centralization, censorship, or risk of having your data handed to the government by the organization running the network. We'll see how sustainable your centralized donation-ware is. Btw somebody mentioned "only" 1:1 encrypted chats: who does it better? xx Messenger can do group chats but you can't add people to a chat after the group has been created. |
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What are you missing on Signal? The ability to sign up without a phone number would indeed be great, but other than that, they seem to be collecting effectively nothing.
> People complain about the use of blockchain in messengers, but they offer no solutions on how to address app sustainability
If this is about funding, just make it paid/freemium! Effectively that's the same thing as launching an own token or even blockchain, just without all the complexity of launching and sustainably managing what might easily become a pyramid or Ponzi scheme and/or a security in scope of regulations.
> Btw somebody mentioned "only" 1:1 encrypted chats: who does it better?
Signal, and everything based on it (e.g. WhatsApp), Matrix, and Threema immediately come to mind, and they all don't have this weakness:
> but you can't add people to a chat after the group has been created.