Re:Wire is now on F-Droid
by kitkat_new on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:58PM
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> If, at some time in the future, it manages to create a usable bridge to connect between two popular private services (say Whatsapp and Telegram, or Teams and Slack) it could start accumulating network effects
Well, I think usable bridges for such apps are a thing already. See e.g. https://element.io/element-matrix-store and https://beeper.com
Problems are:
- it's a subscription based service
- End to end encryption is not active for these services as long as you don't run the bridge yourself (which in principle is possible as well, see e.g. the description at the website of Beeper) which stretches usable a bit...
Both problems would likely be solved if these services would provide an API for other messengers and would cooperate on a common standard for E2EE like MLS, however the likelihood for that ... seems pretty small. 1.
If, at some time in the future, it manages to create a usable bridge to connect between two popular private services (say Whatsapp and Telegram, or Teams and Slack) it could start accumulating network effects, and become a desirable target for all other networks so that it is appealing for them to build their own bridges to the Matrix services.