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Messaging fragmentation and messaging monopolies are bad for people. This WIRED article advocating a messaging monopoly owned by an ad-business made me mentally flip tables. The corporate centralization problem is especially pronounced in messaging. Messaging APIs shrink or disappear, eventually turning into an official GIF sharing Obj-C library that you have to use in order to not have your API keys revoked [drama added].
Related problems:
Identity: Peer identity versus user identity. Is this something we're aware of? E.g. I am a person with one brain (hopefully not just a computer simulation) but I have multiple ipfs peers running ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Identity is a prerequisite for chat and other social structures.
Pubsub: Is messaging just a version of PubSub?
Messaging properties:
Message history: A personal block chain of sent and received messages?
Direct messaging: Sending messages between two users
Group messaging: Sending messages among multiple users, topics, channels