Sorry about that! I didn’t mean to offend you at all! The thing is, you’re spot on. So think of my comment as the rant of a bitter, nostalgic guy who lived through the days of XMPP, IRC, and all that, and saw what could be done. I just hold a bit of a grudge against the way instant messaging and chats are now. Everything’s locked into closed systems, it’s slowly turning rubbish, and decent solutions don’t catch on because they’re “too complicated”, ignoring all the good stuff we’d get if we managed to get past the first hurdle.
On the bright side: The general public (and some governments) are beginning to notice the importance of privacy and data sovereignty, more people are seeking out systems with distributed designs, and tools that address modern needs using those designs are slowly getting less complicated to use.
I hope we can keep our governments from criminalizing them.
Sorry about that! I didn’t mean to offend you at all! The thing is, you’re spot on. So think of my comment as the rant of a bitter, nostalgic guy who lived through the days of XMPP, IRC, and all that, and saw what could be done. I just hold a bit of a grudge against the way instant messaging and chats are now. Everything’s locked into closed systems, it’s slowly turning rubbish, and decent solutions don’t catch on because they’re “too complicated”, ignoring all the good stuff we’d get if we managed to get past the first hurdle.
I think we just found our common ground. :)
On the bright side: The general public (and some governments) are beginning to notice the importance of privacy and data sovereignty, more people are seeking out systems with distributed designs, and tools that address modern needs using those designs are slowly getting less complicated to use.
I hope we can keep our governments from criminalizing them.