Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram in one place

Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by TeMPOraL on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @05:35PM (#29006603)

Perhaps if we normalized messenger interoperabiltiy, there would be less churn in "all-in-one" clients. That churn exists mostly because platforms actively fight their users on this.

And still, periodically changing an all-in-one messenger is still better than keeping and changing half a dozen messengers.

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Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by hypertele-Xii on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @07:49PM (#29007927)

Unless those official clients have features not available in the all-in-one client. Like encryption, which this one apparently lacks.

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Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by TeMPOraL on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @03:33AM (#29010509)

The benefit of an all-in-one client is that they can port/shim/polyfill[0] missing features between the backing platforms.

[0] - Whatever is the most appropriate webdev word of the day.

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Re:Element One – All of Matrix, WhatsApp, Signal and Telegra... by hypertele-Xii on Friday October 29, 2021 @03:22PM (#29042524)

And the downside of an all-in-one client is that they are going to have to port/shim/polyfill features from a hostile, proprietary, changing API.

Once again, the problem is not technical, it's political. Until interoperability is enforced by government, I expect companies to keep building their siloes. Network effect and tragic commons and all that.

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