On Feb 2, 2016, at 3:19 PM, Martin Vahi <martin.v...@softf1.com> wrote: > > Whether the Telegram sticks, I think that > probably NOT, because it is not totally anonymous, > not even totally private, depends only on one vendor > and that vendor applies some censorship just to > avoid being closed down by different governments,
Every other one of the items on that list I posted has at least one of these weaknesses. The single biggest one is being proprietary. Notice, for example, how many of the items on that list are from Google, one of the richest companies on the planet, yet it is somehow unable to provide a long-term reliable communications service. (I left off Jabber/XMPP, and it looks like Hangouts is on the skids now, too!) I’ll be the first to agree that Internet email is far from perfect, but it remains the Internet’s only fully-decentralized non-proprietary federated communications system. Anything wanting to replace email will have to cover all of those bases and then offer a significant feature increase before it can be expected to sweep aside 40 years of incumbency. More likely, email’s replacement will replace it from within, in the same way and with approximately the same speed as IPv6 is replacing IPv4. _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
