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My only question is: Is this a Twitter or Facebook replacement? Because if it's only about someone status and you can't post something on someone's wall/timeline, then it will never truly complete with Facebook. It was the only thing missing from Google+ IMO.
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I disagree with that, though you might want to think strongly on what you mean by "privacy". For some people, this is strictly limited to the technical capability to prevent (or allow) the flow of information. I'd long subscribed to this point of view, but have found it inadequate, if only because capabilities have been changing so dramatically on this point. Rather, and this is something of a personal definition, th…
Your definition is not unusual at all, in fact, it is pretty close to the German definition of "Datenschutz" (data protection): Individuals have the right to know who has what information about them and the right to determine to what extent what information may be shared.
The definition draws in part on Jeffrey Rosen's The Unwanted Gaze, published in the late 1990s, and apparently quite underappreciated and/or known. Though it's been a while since I've read it.
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it's really not worth it. If people want to exchange encrypted messages, they should use a proper tool for that.
Please don't say that. We already had such pain from HTTP, FTP, and SMTP not starting with it. If building the next version of internet discussion and sharing, we really need first-class support for encryption.
My only question is: Is this a Twitter or Facebook replacement? Because if it's only about someone status and you can't post something on someone's wall/timeline, then it will never truly complete with Facebook. It was the only thing missing from Google+ IMO.
Does anyone know if say you have Facebook level of activity, wouldn’t the block chain be in the orders of petabytes to download? I’m sure you may want to know your history all the way back, or does the protocol is smart to know how much you need to download?
SSB uses an append-only log similar to a blockchain, but it only contains things your identity knows about (you and your friends and channels).
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Desktop client support is lacking, but I think Dino (a relative newcomer) does a pretty good job of being compatible with Conversations and being "modern" (for some handwavey value of "modern") messenger based on XMPP: https://dino.im/
Last time I tried Dino was 4th August, but I can't remember what made me stick with Pidgin. But hey, if Sam Whited suggests Dino I will try it again :-D I love the XMPP and Golang stuff you are doing. And far as I can see it Dino seems to have pretty good XEP collection nowadays: https://github.com/dino/dino/wiki/Supported-XEPs
Dino's still relatively new software so it may not be all that stable yet (I don't actually use it enough to know). I hope it works out for you though; it looks nice if nothing else!
> I love the XMPP and Golang stuff you are doing.
Thanks! It's still very early days and I don't get a lot of time to work on it, but I'm glad someone has seen it and found it useful.